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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:11:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D1486F.7060506@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D0BA0A.1070709@redhat.com>

Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Until recently, the maximum number of xvd block devices you could attach to
> a Xen domU was 16.  This limitation turned out to be problematic for some users,
> so it was expanded to handle a much larger number of disks.  However, this
> requires a couple of changes in the way that blkfront scans for disks.  This
> functionality is already present in the Xen linux-2.6.18-xen.hg tree; the
> attached patch adds this functionality to the mainline xen-blkfront
> implementation.  I successfully tested it on a 2.6.25 tree, and build tested it
> on 2.6.27-rc3.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
>   

Jens, do you have this one already?

Thanks,
    J

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-17 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-17  8:04 Chris Lalancette
2008-09-17 18:11 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-09-17 18:20   ` Jens Axboe

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