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Re: [Qemu-devel] question about share flatviews


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] question about share flatviews
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 10:29:00 +0100
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On 14/01/2018 13:20, CheneyLin wrote:
> I'm wondering why we have to shares flatviews between different ASes. In
> my opinion, arch likeĀ x86 only have two ASes(memory AS and io AS), each
> AS is related with only one flatview. Their ASes are definitely different.

Every PCI device has its own AddressSpace.  A PCI device's is either the
same as the memory AS or the same as the empty AS, hence sharing the
FlatView can provide substantial memory usage improvements.

Paolo



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