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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:04:44 +0200
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation
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On 05/19/09 13:08, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Or, alternatively, the hypervisor can expose its own administrative
> interface to manage MTRRs.

Guess what?  Xen does exactly that.  And the xen mtrr_ops implementation 
uses that interface ...

cheers,
   Gerd