Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Expose available KVM free memory slot count to help avoid aborts

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On 01/25/2011 07:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:33:40PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 01/25/2011 04:59 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>  >On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 04:53:44PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  >>   For the other lookups, which we
>  >>   believe will succeed, we can assume the probablity of a match is
>  >>   related to the slot size, and sort the slots by page count.
>  >
>  >Unlikely to be true for assigned device BARs.
>
>  We'll have a large slot at 4G+ - EOM, a medium slot at 1M-3G, and
>  lots of small slots for BARs and such.
>
>  The vast majority of faults will either touch one of the two largest
>  slots, or will miss all slots.  Relatively few will hit the small
>  slots.

Not if you are using one of the assigned devices and don't
do any faults on memory :)

It's impossible not to fault on memory.

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