Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753977AbZITHz2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:55:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753683AbZITHz2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:55:28 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:55501 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751646AbZITHz1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:55:27 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:52:39 +0200 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alok Kataria , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. Message-ID: <20090920095239.456ad6f2@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> References: <1253233028.19731.63.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090919224430.GB9567@kroah.com> <1253419185.3253.21.camel@ank32.eng.vmware.com> <20090920074247.GA5733@elte.hu> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 20 On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > If we were able to rip out all (or most) of paravirt from arch/x86 it > would be tempting for other technical reasons - but the patch above > is well localized. interesting question is if this would allow us to remove a few of the paravirt hooks.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/