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

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On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:28:12AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/27/2011 11:26 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>  >Right. That's why I say that sorting by size might not be optimal.
> >>  >Maybe a cache ...
> >>
> >>  Why would it not be optimal?
> >>
> >>  If you have 16GB RAM in two slots and a few megabytes here and there
> >>  scattered in some slots, you have three orders of magnitudes to
> >>  spare.
> >
> >Yes but you might not be accessing all that RAM.
> >Maybe your workset is just tens of megabytes.
> 
> Great, then you fault it in and never touch the slots array again.

Yep. Except for emulated mmio :)

> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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