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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: Re: Re: mapping problems in xenpaging
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:04:40 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 10, Andres Lagar Cavilla wrote:

> Pigybacking another question: ultimately, if we get p2m sync correct,
> paging can introduce arbitrary waits. Currently the code bails out,
> rather ungracefully (e.g. hvm_copy). Is this what wait queues were
> introduced for? Hasn't that been implemented purely out of lack of
> cycles, or something more fundamental awaits?

I did not have the time yet to make use of that new feature.

Olaf