From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehJyC-0002hI-5B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:52:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehJy7-0007i8-15 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:52:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehJy6-0007hg-Rh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Feb 2018 13:52:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:52:04 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180201204527-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180131230607-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180131233422.GP26425@localhost.localdomain> <20180201040608-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <8dbc7c99-84f6-0023-526b-359fdf2b5162@redhat.com> <20180201121009.GR26425@localhost.localdomain> <20180201135340.GU26425@localhost.localdomain> <20180201182108.GE26425@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V8 1/4] mem: add share parameter to memory-backend-ram List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marcel Apfelbaum Cc: Eduardo Habkost , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, cohuck@redhat.com, f4bug@amsat.org, yuval.shaia@oracle.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:31:09PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > Theoretically is possible to send any contiguous IOVA instead of > process's one but is not how is working today. It works this way today in hardware but it's not hardware that limits it to work this way - it's a software limitation. -- MST