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Re: [Xen-devel] blktap2 and CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP

from [Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

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To:	Daniel Stodden <daniel.stodden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [Xen-devel] blktap2 and CONFIG_XEN_BLKBACK_PAGEMAP
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:53:09 -0700
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On 07/16/2010 01:16 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> Yes. That code has been there forever and then got carried over from
> blktap1 to blktap2, basically as-is. Even to pvops, where it's probaby
> broken. Empirical proof that nobody is using blktap2 with
> autotranslation, at least not on recent kernels.
>
> I guess it's going to stay there until autotranslation either gets more
> en vogue again or evaporates altogether.
>   

auto_translate_physmap will come back if people want to use EPT/NPT with
PV guests.

    J

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