[PSARC/2007/599 FastTrack timeout 10/23/2007]

[David Marx]

Kais Belgaied wrote:

> what about  dom0 ? Assuming all RAM is seen as available to dom0, 
> locking 1/4 of it
> is probably excessive.
> I'm not sure much can be done for such situation, other than a word of 
> caution in the man page
> documenting project.max-device-locked-memory, for the case of xVM.

The Xorg intel driver is currently trying to get 50MB to 100MB
of memory to lock down for the graphics.  We see the problem
on small systems, where that is more than 1/16 of the memory.
Hopefully if one is running multiple OS instances, one is
putting on a decent amount of memory on their system.