On 07.06.23 15:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 10:37:09AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> In normal cases PCI passthrough in PV guests requires to start the guest
>> with e820_host=1. So it should be rather easy to limit allocating the
>> 64MB in PV guests to the cases where the memory map has non-RAM regions
>> especially in the first 1MB of the memory.
>>
>> This will cover even hotplug cases. The only case not covered would be a
>> guest started with e820_host=1 even if no PCI passthrough was planned.
>> But this should be rather rare (at least I hope so).
> 
> So is this an ACK for the patch and can we go ahead with it?

As long as above mentioned check of the E820 map is done, yes.

If you want I can send a diff to be folded into your patch on Monday.

> 
> (I'd still like to merge swiotlb-xen into swiotlb eventually, but it's
> probably not going to happen this merge window)

Would be nice.


Juergen