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[Xen-devel] Re: Even faster page copy for Xen?

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Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: Even faster page copy for Xen?
From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:48:57 +0100
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>>> Keir Fraser  07/16/10 9:57 AM >>>
>Jan also added a copy_page hypercall, so he may have been optimising for
>that, since I guess the Novell kernels must use it.

Yes, that was the very goal of that change.

Jan


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