Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] kvm: Move private memory slots to start of memslots array | From | Alex Williamson <> | Date | Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:58:48 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 19:24 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > 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.
This series takes a really simple approach and grows the array up to the given slot->id. If we have private slots at the end of the array then we always allocate the whole thing. I'm playing with a version now that fixes this, but complexity becomes a much more significant factor. Thanks,
Alex
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