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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] kvm: Batch writes to MMIO
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:13:23 +0300
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Laurent Vivier wrote:
> When kernel has to send MMIO writes to userspace, it stores them
> in memory until it has to pass the hand to userspace for another
> reason. This avoids to have too many context switches on operations
> that can wait.
>
> These patches introduce an ioctl() to define MMIO allowed to be coalesced.
>
> This is the kernel part of the coalesced MMIO functionality.
>
>   

Applied all, thanks.

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