Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:18:44 +1100 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: replace BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY with BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE |
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FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > I'm not familiar with what Xen does but why can't Xen just override > BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE? > > Why does Xen need to hook BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE to the iommu_bio_merge > parameter (as this patch does)? BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE and the > iommu_bio_merge parameter are not related at all. >
No, it doesn't. It was convenient to reuse that mechanism, but I can easily re-add something else (which would be more or less identical).
J
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