Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:48:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
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       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, steiner@sgi.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:52:47AM -0600, Robin Holt wrote:
> > But 100 callouts holding spinlocks will not work for our implementation
> > and even if the callouts are made with spinlocks released, we would very
> > strongly prefer a single callout which messages the range to the other
> > side.
> 
> But you take the physical address and turn into mm+va with your rmap...

The remote mm+va or a local mm+va?

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