On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:32:39AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > v2: Update 02/10 to not check userspace_addr when slot is removed. > Yoshikawa-san withdrew objection to increase slot_bitmap prior > to his series to remove slot_bitmap. > > This series does away with any kind of complicated resizing of the > slot array and simply does a one time increase. I do compact struct > kvm_memory_slot a bit to take better advantage of the space we are > using. This reduces each slot from 64 bytes (x86_64) to 56 bytes. > By enforcing the API around valid operations for an unused slot and > fields that can be modified runtime, I found and was able to fix a > bug in iommu mapping for slots. The renames enabled me to find the > previously posted bug fix for catching slot overlaps. > > As mentioned in the series, the primary motivation for increasing > memory slots is assigned devices. With this, I've been able to > assign 30 devices to a single VM and could have gone further, but > ran out of SRIOV VFs. Typical devices use anywhere from 2-4 slots > and max out at 8 slots. 125 user slots (3 private slots) allows > us to support between 28 and 56 typical devices per VM. > > Tested on x86_64, compiled on ia64, powerpc, and s390. > > Thanks, > Alex
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