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Date:	Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:58:22 -0700
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, gleb@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/6] kvm: Merge id_to_index into memslots

On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 19:22 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:39:24PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > This allows us to resize this structure and therefore the number of
> > memslots as part of the RCU update.
> 
> Why is this necessary? "struct memslots" is updated, message above
> conflicts with that.
> 
> If there is a reason, "id_to_index" becomes confusing.
> 

I can't have two indeterminate sized arrays in the same structure, so by
moving id_to_index into struct kvm_memory_slot I get back to one array.
I'm playing with whether this is worthwhile.  If we reduce id_to_index
to a short then we can leave it with a static size and still get a
memory savings for the typical case.  Thanks,

Alex

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