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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [VTD] Separate VT-d page table from P2M table

To: "Han, Weidong" <weidong.han@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [VTD] Separate VT-d page table from P2M table
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:40:01 +0100
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Han, Weidong, le Tue 22 Apr 2008 17:34:11 +0800, a écrit :
> Separate VT-d page table is by default. Shared VT-d page table may be
> easy and good in some cases. So we let them co-exist now. If shared VT-d
> page table is not necessary and useless, we can remove it easily in
> future.

But why unsharing it at all?  Is there any bonus except using more
memory? :)

Samuel

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