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From: Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>
Subject: Purpose of linear page tables
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:47:54 -0800
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hi,

now that Xen has writable page tables, I was wondering if there is any 
real need for the linear page tables in Xen? It seems some of the 
drivers still use them, but I imagine they could use the regular 
mmu_updates just as efficiently. Am I wrong?

Jacob