[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] Avoid using f-segment memory for virtio

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Thu Sep 28 01:06:19 CEST 2017


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 04:49:50PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/07/2017 18:50, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > This series updates the generic code so that either "low" memory or
> > the f-segment can be used for storing drive mapping information.  It
> > also updates the virtio code to use "low" memory for its allocations.
> > I think there is a good chance this series will, in practice, avoid
> > running out of memory when a large number of virtio drives are
> > available.
> > 
> > There are other ways to tackle this problem (eg, more of the virtio
> > storage could be moved into "high" memory), but I think this approach
> > has the benefit of avoiding a "big bang" patch series.
> > 
> > Comments welcome.
> 
> Tested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> 
> Thank you very much for the fix!  It would be nice to have it in 1.11.

Thanks.  I committed this series.

-Kevin



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