From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Stodden Subject: Re: blktap2 and CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:56:33 -0700 Message-ID: <1279328193.22901.140.camel@agari.van.xensource.com> References: <2E49F371-C04A-4DE2-9945-66ABADD0042C@rice.edu> <1279311367.7396.1254.camel@agari.van.xensource.com> <4C40FEF5.1060901@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4C40FEF5.1060901@goop.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Kaushik Kumar Ram List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:53 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > On 07/16/2010 01:16 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote: > > Yes. That code has been there forever and then got carried over from > > blktap1 to blktap2, basically as-is. Even to pvops, where it's probaby > > broken. Empirical proof that nobody is using blktap2 with > > autotranslation, at least not on recent kernels. > > > > I guess it's going to stay there until autotranslation either gets more > > en vogue again or evaporates altogether. > > > > auto_translate_physmap will come back if people want to use EPT/NPT with > PV guests. Ah. I always thought that's going to be rather the replacement. Rather than being synonymous in the kernel sources. Now that you say it, it might make sense. :) Daniel