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Hi, This set of patches remarkably accelerates IDE PIO on HVM/IA64. I got a throughput of 2.11MB/sec in disk read performance. Without it, it was only 64kB/sec. I posted the prototype once. http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-12/msg00077.html The basic idea is to add a buffering mechanism in a hypervisor. I know this approach is not sophisticated. But there is no other good