netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model

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Message-ID: <4A8AA0C6.805@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:38:30 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gregory Haskins <GHaskins@...ell.com>
CC:	mingo@...e.hu, gregory.haskins@...il.com,
	alacrityvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, mst@...hat.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] vbus: add a "vbus-proxy" bus model

On 08/18/2009 03:36 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Yeah, I agree.  I am not advocating we expend energy on this now.  But my thoughts at the time were that that particular problem can be solved at io-setup time with some kind of call to qualify the address.
>
> Iow: a slow path call with the address would return flags on whether iowrite() should do a real io, or a IOoHC.
>    

Yes, it could work, though we'd need somewhere to stow this 
information.  IIRC Arnd suggested a bit from the address itself.

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