linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/14] KVM: x86: dynamic kvm_apic

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Message-ID: <bf61952d-c5fd-c506-52f6-d465747ab652@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:29:10 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	"Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@...el.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
	Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/14] KVM: x86: dynamic kvm_apic_map



On 12/07/2016 22:09, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> x2APIC supports up to 2^32-1 LAPICs, but most guest in coming years will
> have slighly less VCPUs.

It's "fewer", not "less" (that's important to make the joke less uncanny
for native speakers :)).  Less goes with uncountable nouns such as milk.

Paolo

> Dynamic size saves memory at the cost of
> turning one constant into a variable.