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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] eal: map uio resources after hugepages
	when the base_virtaddr is configured.
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:58:05 +0100
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2014-11-06 15:41, Burakov, Anatoly:
> Thomas, do we need to do similar changes to VFIO code, to keep consistency?
> Also, do we really need for this to depend on --base-virtaddr? Why not do it
> unconditionally, i.e. map PCI resources right after hugepages in memory?

I don't really like the secondary process mechanism at all.
So I won't give good advice here ;)
But I feel this option --base-virtaddr should be improved or removed.

-- 
Thomas