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Date:   Fri, 7 Jan 2022 10:46:48 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] x86/sgx: Add accounting for tracking overcommit
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To:     Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen@linux.intel.com>,
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        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
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 <20220107181618.6597-2-kristen@linux.intel.com>
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On 1/7/22 10:16, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> The overcommit percentage value is 150, which limits the total number of
> shared memory pages that may be consumed by all enclaves as backing pages
> to 1.5X of EPC pages on the system.

Hi Kristen,

Could you give some background on how this value was chosen and how it 
might impact userspace?