[Lguest] [kvm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] virtio ring helper

[Avi Kivity]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> These helper routines supply most of the virtqueue_ops for hypervisors
> which want to use a ring for virtio.  Unlike the previous lguest
> implementation:
>
> 3) The page numbers are always 64 bit (PAE anyone?)
>   

32 bits of page numbers give 44 bits of physical address on x86.  That's 
16TB per guest.  Admittedly it's smaller on a VAX.

I don't like the chaining and would prefer the descriptor to refer to an 
array of page descriptors.  However I can't complain since this isn't 
common code.

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