Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver

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On 03/25/2010 06:23 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> There has been previous discussion of virtio, however while virtio is
>> good for exporting guest memory, it's not ideal for importing memory
>> into a guest.
>
> virtio is a DMA-based API which means that it doesn't assume cache 
> coherent shared memory.  The PCI transport takes advantage of cache 
> coherent shared memory but it's not strictly required.

Aren't we violating this by not using dma_alloc_coherent() for the queues?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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