Re: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM

[Avi Kivity]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Right, but we can allocate the maximum number, no?  it's a fairly small 
> > amount of memory.
> >     
>
> There are 255 banks worst case which need upto 4 (in theory 5) MSRs each
>
>   

That's 8KB, which would normally not be allocated.  But I think we can 
live with it.

Do we actually need to support 255 banks?  Or can we support a smaller 
number transparently?

(IOW: are the banks interchangable?)

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