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

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Message-ID: <1354896579.3224.75.camel@bling.home>
Date:	Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:09:39 -0700
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To:	Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@...il.com>
Cc:	mtosatti@...hat.com, gleb@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] kvm: Increase user memory slots on x86 to 125

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@...hat.com> 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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