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From: "Yu, Zhang" <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Resize the MAX_NR_IO_RANGES for
 ioreq server
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 22:49:26 +0800
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On 7/7/2015 10:43 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 07.07.15 at 16:30, <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> I know that George and you have concerns about the differences
>> between MMIO and guest page tables, but I do not quite understand
>> why. :)
>
> But you read George's very nice description of the differences? I
> ask because if you did, I don't see why you re-raise the question
> above.
>

Well, yes. I guess you mean this statement:
"the former is one or two actual ranges of a significant size; the
latter are (apparently) thousands of ranges of one page each."?
But I do not understand why this is abusing the io range interface.
Does the number matters so much? :)

B.R.
Yu

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