Re: [PATCH 10/10] kvm: Increase user memory slots on x86 to 125

From: Alex Williamson
Date: Fri Dec 07 2012 - 11:09:28 EST


On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:02 +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:21:26 -0700
> Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > With the 3 private slots, this gives us a nice round 128 slots total.
>
> So I think this patch needs to be applied after resolving the
> slot_bitmap issue. We may not need to protect slots with large
> slot id values, but still it's possible to do so.
>
> Taking into account that the merge window is so close that this
> patch set should be targeted for 3.9, it may be possible to do
> the work timely: I will post my patch series next week if possible.

This obviously increases the slot_bitmap, actually only doubles it since
it's an unsigned long and we're only using 36 bits, but why should
removing the slot_bitmap gate this series? Thanks,

Alex

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