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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:25:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E08C2F.4010003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090411121911.GR14687@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Right, but we can allocate the maximum number, no?  it's a fairly small 
>> amount of memory.
>>     
>
> There are 255 banks worst case which need upto 4 (in theory 5) MSRs each
>
>   

That's 8KB, which would normally not be allocated.  But I think we can 
live with it.

Do we actually need to support 255 banks?  Or can we support a smaller 
number transparently?

(IOW: are the banks interchangable?)

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-11 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-08  1:53 [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM Huang Ying
2009-04-09 15:50 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-10  3:00   ` Huang Ying
2009-04-11 12:04     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-11 12:19       ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-11 12:25         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-13  8:26           ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-13  2:41       ` Huang Ying
2009-04-13 13:02         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14  2:04           ` Huang Ying
2009-04-14 10:45             ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-15  7:24               ` Huang Ying
2009-04-18 22:17           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-04-19  8:33             ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20  7:52               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-20  8:26                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20  8:59                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-20  9:05                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20 10:04                       ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-20 11:02                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20 11:23                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-20 11:27                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20 12:20                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-20 12:43                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-20 13:24                               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-20 13:45                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-21  9:14                                   ` Xenner design and kvm msr handling Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-21 10:14                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-21 11:41                                       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-21 12:27                                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-21 12:47                                           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-21 13:33                                             ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-21 16:00                                               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-21 16:15                                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-22 10:02                                                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-04-21 16:04               ` [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM Anthony Liguori
2009-04-21 16:17                 ` Avi Kivity

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