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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:23:36 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/17] pseries: savevm support for pseries
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 13:45 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I vaguely recall making the suggestion to use a live section like
>> this. How large is the HTAB typically?
>
> Depends on how much RAM you put in your VM. The default is around 16M
> but it can get bigger.

Yeah, it's worth adding a comment to the commit message explaining
this on the next spin.  There are very, very few live savevm handlers (I
think this would be the third) so it's a very unusual thing to do.

I don't know of a better option though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Cheers,
> Ben.