Re: [PATCH v6 04/12] Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface

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 On 10/07/2010 06:03 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>  >
>  >  Isn't SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION so slow that calling it 2^32 times
>  >  isn't really feasible?
>
>  Assuming it takes 1ms, it would take 49 days.
>
We may fail ioctl when max value is reached. The question is how much slot
changes can we expect from real guest during its lifetime.


A normal guest has a 30 Hz timer for reading the vga framebuffer, multiple slots. Let's assume 100 Hz frequency, that gives 490 days until things stop working.

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