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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] linux: virtio: Standardize virtio's concept of
	"page size"
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:18:29 -0600
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On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:47 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 10:07:09 Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> 
> > Both sides of the virtio interface must agree about how big a pfn
> really
> 
> > is. This is particularly an issue on architectures where the page
> size is
> 
> > configurable (e.g. PowerPC, IA64) -- the interface must be
> independent of
> 
> > PAGE_SHIFT.
> 
> Thanks Hollis! Applied, with the following overpatch:

Avi, will you commit the matching qemu patch? (I'm not clear on the
patch flow for kvm-userspace qemu virtio patches.)

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center