From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] vring: Replace mmap() interface with ioctl() Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:20:59 +0300 Message-ID: <4853D3CB.4090709@qumranet.com> References: <1213365481-23460-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> <1213365481-23460-2-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> <200806141902.54119.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Anthony Liguori , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Rusty Russell Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:52416 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754748AbYFNOVE (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:21:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200806141902.54119.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Rusty Russell wrote: > BTW, including base and limit makes sense. I didn't do this to start since > Avi doesn't want to guarentee kvm's guest mapping linear (of course he's only > doing this so he can fix it later). > And also, because memory hotplug and 64-bit PCI BARs require reserving an infinite virtual address space range. Not to mention that someone needs to update the dirty bitmap in case we're live migrating. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.