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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/22] virtio_pci: use separate notification offsets for
	each vq.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:50:54 -0700
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On 03/27/2013 04:25 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> Aha. Yes, good idea.  As for how large the offsets are,
> I am guessing we should either just say offset is vqn * X and data is
> vqn, or give hypervisors full flexibility with 32 bit offset and
> arbitrary data.
> 16 bit offsets seem neither here nor there ...

Shift count?

	-hpa


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