Re: [PATCH RESEND]: Expand Xen blkfront for > 16 xvd

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Sep 17 2008 - 14:12:19 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
>

Jens, do you have this one already?

Thanks,
J
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