Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] kvm: Move private memory slots to start ofmemslots array

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 19:24 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:39:30PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > In order to make the memslots array grow on demand, move the private
> > slots to the lower indexes of the array.  The private slots are
> > assumed likely to be in use, so if we didn't do this we'd end up
> > allocating the full memslots array all the time.
> 
> You're changing private slot ids. Fail to see why is that relevant
> to on-demand growing.

This series takes a really simple approach and grows the array up to the
given slot->id.  If we have private slots at the end of the array then
we always allocate the whole thing.  I'm playing with a version now that
fixes this, but complexity becomes a much more significant factor.
Thanks,

Alex

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