Why does kvm_rmap_desc in /proc/slabinfo increase almost constantly?

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Issue

The values for kvm_rmap_desc in /proc/slabinfo is increasing constantly, more objects are allocated all the time. Is this something to be conserned of?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • KVM hypervisor

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