Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754003AbYLAKrc (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:47:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752614AbYLAKrF (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:47:05 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52429 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754087AbYLAKrF (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:47:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4933BF71.6010801@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:41:53 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cyrill Gorcunov CC: Rusty Russell , lguest@ozlabs.org, Alexander van Heukelum , Alexander van Heukelum , jeremy@xensource.com, LKML , Mike Travis , Steven Rostedt , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [Lguest] [PATCH RFC/RFB] x86_64, i386: interrupt dispatch changes References: <20081104150729.GC21470@localhost> <20081129154516.GA26579@mailshack.com> <49318871.8010501@redhat.com> <200812011502.37170.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <4933AD51.5000202@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1338 Lines: 34 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: > ... > >> Once it's done there's no reason not to commit it. But the effort expended >> to do it is gone, without any measurable return. >> >> > ... > > Not sure Avi what you mean but as far as I know Alexander is working on > this file so he need just time to finish (we all have other duties you know :). > So I think the idea Peter proposed could be merged right after Alexander > will have finished. At least the Peter's suggestion was recorded in this > thread which means it will *not* be lost eventually. Or you meant something > else (yep, I could have it translated plain wrong)? > What I mean is that hpa's patch makes the kernel better, so it should be applied. I'm not sure what else Alexander is working on, but I do hope the improvements will be more concrete. (Alexander, I apologise for being so discouraging; but I really feel these improvements are marginal) -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/