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

[Takuya Yoshikawa]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:09:39 -0700
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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,


I was wrong, sorry.

I thought slot_bitmap was defined as u64 or something, the fact was that
my memory was corrupt.

Thanks,
	Takuya
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