From d312ae878b6aed3912e1acaaf5d0b2a9d08a4f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Vrabel Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:57:16 +0100 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk --- arch/x86/xen/setup.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/xen/setup.c') diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c index 02ffd9e48c9..ff3dfa17681 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c @@ -183,6 +183,19 @@ static unsigned long __init xen_set_identity(const struct e820entry *list, PFN_UP(start_pci), PFN_DOWN(last)); return identity; } + +static unsigned long __init xen_get_max_pages(void) +{ + unsigned long max_pages = MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES; + domid_t domid = DOMID_SELF; + int ret; + + ret = HYPERVISOR_memory_op(XENMEM_maximum_reservation, &domid); + if (ret > 0) + max_pages = ret; + return min(max_pages, MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES); +} + /** * machine_specific_memory_setup - Hook for machine specific memory setup. **/ @@ -291,6 +304,12 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void) sanitize_e820_map(e820.map, ARRAY_SIZE(e820.map), &e820.nr_map); + extra_limit = xen_get_max_pages(); + if (extra_limit >= max_pfn) + extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn; + else + extra_pages = 0; + extra_pages += xen_return_unused_memory(xen_start_info->nr_pages, &e820); /* -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2