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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86: replace BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY with BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:18:44 +1100
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with what Xen does but why can't Xen just override
> > BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE?
> >
> > Why does Xen need to hook BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE to the iommu_bio_merge
> > parameter (as this patch does)? BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE and the
> > iommu_bio_merge parameter are not related at all.
> >
>
> No, it doesn't. It was convenient to reuse that mechanism, but I can
> easily re-add something else (which would be more or less identical).

I still don't see how Xen needs something like the virtual merge
(sounds that overriding BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE perfectly works for Xen)
or why Xen needs a new boot parameter for it. The virtual merge just
defines how IOMMUs should work.


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