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On Sat, 2017-04-15 at 11:36 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > I agree in principle. I'm surprised that PowerPC is the only one
> > interested here though, what about other platforms who want to use
> > KVM and PCI pass-through and use Linux to assign BARs ?
> 
> If I understand correctly, the problem is with BARs smaller than a
> page, and this happens more on PowerPC because larger page sizes are
> more common there.

Yes, it happens "more". That doesn't mean it doesn't happen at all on
others :-) Anyway, I'm not objecting, just surprised.

Cheers,
Ben.