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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 14/16] paravirtualize IO permission bitmap

To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 14/16] paravirtualize IO permission bitmap
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:36:17 +1000
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Thomas Gleixner wrote:
  Sigh, is there a plan to limit the paravirt horror at some point or
  are we keeping on adding to it forever ?

There haven't been any new ops added in a long time. We've had one for iopl for a long while; this fills it out to be fully functional. I don't see a need for any more ops with the current architecture.

   J

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