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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] kvm: Move private memory slots to start of
 memslots array
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 19:24:03 -0200
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On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:39:30PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> In order to make the memslots array grow on demand, move the private
> slots to the lower indexes of the array.  The private slots are
> assumed likely to be in use, so if we didn't do this we'd end up
> allocating the full memslots array all the time.

You're changing private slot ids. Fail to see why is that relevant
to on-demand growing.