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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Bypass tcg memory functions -v1.0-2009
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:43:06 +0000
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Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, aliguori@us.ibm.com

On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Glauber Costa wrote:
> This series is not very different from the last one that did it.
> Just bringing it back from my vacations. Idea is to replace tcg
> memory functions with kvm's, selectable at runtime. Right now
> we use a conditional selection. In the future, we might use
> function pointers to allow for easy coupling of any hypervisor.

I dislike that you're introducing two different ways or doing the same thing.  
Duplicating all the memory region tracking code seems like a bad way to solve 
this problem.

Paul