linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions

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Date:	Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:02:03 +0200
From:	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, andrey@...l.ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:41:22 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > Lets leave decision upto users instead of making them live with
> > crashing guests.
> 
> Come on, let's fix it in userspace.
I'm not abandoning userspace approach either but it might take time
to implement in robust manner as it's much more complex and has much
more places to backfire then a straightforward kernel fix which will
work for both old userspace and a new one.

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