On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:57:46PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: > * 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. Can you strace and see if the mmap on hugetlbfs is correctly sized? -- 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