* Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxx> [2009-03-24 16:07]: > > On a 2.6.29, x86_64 host/guest, what's special about specifying a guest > size of -m 3586 when using -mem-path backed by hugetlbfs? 3585 works, > 3586 hangs here: > > ... > PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB) > Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880020000000 - ffff880024000000 > software IO TLB at phys 0x20000000 - 0x24000000 > Memory: 3504832k/4196352k available (2926k kernel code, 524740k absent, 166780k reserved, 1260k data, 496k init) > > I can back -mem-path by tmpfs or disk and it works fine. Also works > with no -mem-path, but it would obviously be nice to benefit from large > pages on big guests. The system has plenty of huge pages to back the > request, and booting with -mem-prealloc makes no difference. Tested on > latest git as of today. Thanks, I've seen this as well, haven't had a chance to dig into the issue yet either. Certainly can test patches if anyone has an idea of what's wrong here. -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
