On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 02:47:40PM +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: [...] > > ranges so perhaps the parameter name could be > > 'max_wp_memory_ranges'? > > > > > > > What does "WP" mean? "Write Protected"? > > > > Yes. > > > Is this parameter closely related to IOREQ server? Should it contain > > "ioreq" somehow? > > > > It is closely related but ioreq server is an implementation detail so > do we want to expose it as a tunable? The concept we need to capture > is that the toolstack can tune the limit of the maximum number of > pages in the VM that can be set such that writes are emulated (but > reads are as for normal ram). Or I guess we could get very specific > and call it something like 'max_gtt_shadows'?
I would prefer generic concept in this case ("wp"). Let's wait a bit for other people to voice their opinion. Whichever one we pick it the meaning of the acronym needs to be clearly documented... Wei. > > > Wei. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel