On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:04:17AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 03:35:32PM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > > > > I like the idea of not tracking the slots at all. It is something the > > guest should not be knowing or tracking. > > Why do you say that?
'slot' is a internal mechanism used by the hash table to accelerate mapping an address to a hash-page. If the hash-table implementation choose to use a different mechanism to accelerate the mapping, it can't because that mechanism is baked into the logic of all the consumers. RP