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Re: [Xen-devel] x86 swiotlb questions

To: "Keir Fraser" <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] x86 swiotlb questions
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:46:45 +0000
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>>> Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 15.12.06 15:19 >>>
>On 15/12/06 14:17, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Is this one of the patches you already sent in your 32-on-64 batch, or an
>>> additional one?
>> 
>> An additional one (or actually, a set of them, to make the individual steps
>> more clear). As a followup, I'm also planning to get rid of the Xen heaps
>> on those arches where they aren't needed (x86-64, not sure about ppc
>> and ia64, but I would assume it's really only x86-32 that needs it).
>
>Yes, that would be great. There are a couple of minor caveats around special
>semantics of the Xen heap but those could do with cleaning up and being made
>explicit anyway.

Mind adding a little more detail here?

Jan

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