Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] generic hypercall support

Avi Kivity
2009-05-08T19:07:38Z

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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