Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:25:19 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add MCE support to KVM |
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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?)
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