Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755418AbbFRLup (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:50:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34409 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbbFRLuh (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:50:37 -0400 Message-ID: <5582B088.1090207@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:50:32 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Igor Mammedov CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, andrey@xdel.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] vhost: support upto 509 memory regions References: <20150617151030-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <5581742C.9060100@redhat.com> <20150617163028-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20150617171257.11fe405d@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20150617173736-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20150617180921.7972345d@igors-macbook-pro.local> <20150617182917-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20150618111224.0aa6dff7@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20150618112004-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20150618133912.63636a47@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20150618134040-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150618134040-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 681 Lines: 20 On 18/06/2015 13:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 01:39:12PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> Lets leave decision upto users instead of making them live with >> crashing guests. > > Come on, let's fix it in userspace. It's not trivial to fix it in userspace. Since QEMU uses RCU there isn't a single memory map to use for a linear gpa->hva map. I find it absurd that we're fighting over 12K of memory. Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/