On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:33:46PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:

> So long as there is no potential for performance or security impact,
> having pvdma turned on automatically is better.  We could still have
> dma=noparavirt to disable it.

pvdma has advantages and disadvantages. It has a significant
performance impact (compared to direct map) but it also let us avoid
pinning all of the guest's memory. I this this should be a guest
decision whether to use it or not, so 'dma=noparavirt' to disable it
seems reasonable.

Cheers,
Muli
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