Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: fix vcpu->mmio_fragments overflow

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/22/2012 01:45 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:

>> Indeed. git pull, recheck and call for kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer()
>> is gone. So this will break new userspace, not old. By global you mean
>> shared between devices (or memory regions)?
> 
> Yes. We only have a single ring per VM, so we cannot flush multi-second
> VGA access separately from other devices. In theory solvable by
> introducing per-region rings that can be driven separately.

But in practice unneeded.  Real time VMs can disable coalescing and not
use planar VGA modes.


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