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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] generic hypercall support
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 22:06:03 +0300
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> ia64 uses mmio to emulate pio, so the cost may be different.  I agree 
>> on x86 it's almost negligible.
>
> Yes, I misunderstood that they actually emulated it like that.  
> However, ia64 has no paravirtualization support today so surely, we 
> aren't going to be justifying this via ia64, right?
>

Right.


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