From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161012Ab2LGQJm (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:09:42 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:51147 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030757Ab2LGQJl (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 11:09:41 -0500 Message-ID: <1354896579.3224.75.camel@bling.home> Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] kvm: Increase user memory slots on x86 to 125 From: Alex Williamson To: Takuya Yoshikawa Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, gleb@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:09:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20121207230238.7049d19fe0dc274910fb72da@gmail.com> References: <20121206214722.24968.6043.stgit@bling.home> <20121206222126.24968.17280.stgit@bling.home> <20121207230238.7049d19fe0dc274910fb72da@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 23:02 +0900, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote: > On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 15:21:26 -0700 > Alex Williamson 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