Re: [PATCH] Use a table to dispatch IO requests in kvmctl

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>  
>>> This patch attempts to clean up kvmctl so that it can be more easily 
>>> made to
>>> work for multiple architectures and to support more emulation.
>>>
>>> It introduces a io dispatch mechanism.  This mechanism supports subpage
>>> granularity but is optimized to efficiently cover regions of pages 
>>> too.  It's
>>> a 64-bit address space that's structured as a 5-level table.
>>>       
>>
>>
>> Why not use a simple array?
>>   
>
> For MMIO too?

Yes.

>
> QEMU uses an array for PIO but a table for MMIO.  I figured it would 
> be best to just use the same table.

Or the same array?


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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