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Subject: Re: [patch 07/10] KVM: MMU: mmu_parent_walk
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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:56:46PM -0700, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> +	} while (level > start_level-1);
>> +}
>> +
>
> Could be much simplified with recursion, no?  As the depth is limited to  
> 4, there's no stack overflow problem.

The early version was recursive, but since its a generic helper I
preferred a non-recursive function.