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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/5] vringfd base/offset
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> It turns out the lguest (and possibly kvm) want the addresses in the
> ring buffer to only cover a certain part of memory, and be offset.
>
>  					<mailto:rusty@rustcorp.com.au>	
> +0xAE	00-01	linux/vring.h
>   

Another virtualization subsystem already uses this range.


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