linux/arch/x86
David Vrabel d312ae878b xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM
Use the domain's maximum reservation to limit the amount of extra RAM
for the memory balloon. This reduces the size of the pages tables and
the amount of reserved low memory (which defaults to about 1/32 of the
total RAM).

On a system with 8 GiB of RAM with the domain limited to 1 GiB the
kernel reports:

Before:

Memory: 627792k/4472000k available

After:

Memory: 549740k/11132224k available

A increase of about 76 MiB (~1.5% of the unused 7 GiB).  The reserved
low memory is also reduced from 253 MiB to 32 MiB.  The total
additional usable RAM is 329 MiB.

For dom0, this requires at patch to Xen ('x86: use 'dom0_mem' to limit
the number of pages for dom0') (c/s 23790)

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-09-01 09:41:40 -04:00
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boot
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crypto crypto: ghash-intel - Fix set but not used in ghash_async_setkey() 2011-06-30 07:43:42 +08:00
ia32 atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
include/asm xen/x86: replace order-based range checking of M2P table by linear one 2011-08-17 10:26:48 -04:00
kernel atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
kvm atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
lguest lguest: Fix translation count about wikipedia's cpuid page 2011-07-22 14:39:50 +09:30
lib atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
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mm atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
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oprofile x86, perf: Make copy_from_user_nmi() a library function 2011-07-21 20:41:57 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2011-07-22 17:04:55 -07:00
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