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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model for
	vbus_driver objects
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:54:09 +0300
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 08:08:24PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> In particular, I think it would be a big win to avoid knowledge of slots in  
> the kernel by doing ring translation in userspace.

vhost supports this BTW: just don't call the memory table ioctl.
In-kernel translation is simple, as well, though.

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