Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754544AbZITPtQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:49:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754426AbZITPtP (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:49:15 -0400 Received: from claw.goop.org ([74.207.240.146]:39347 "EHLO claw.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754367AbZITPtO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:49:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB64EFC.10707@goop.org> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:49:16 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090814 Fedora/3.0-2.6.b3.fc11 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Arjan van de Ven , Ingo Molnar , Alok Kataria , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Chris Wright , Rusty Russell , "virtualization@lists.osdl.org" , Greg KH , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI]. 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> <20090920095239.456ad6f2@infradead.org> <4AB5EF25.9070502@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4AB5EF25.9070502@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.97a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 977 Lines: 28 On 09/20/09 02:00, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> 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.... >> > > kvm will be removing the pvmmu support soon; and Xen is talking about > running paravirtualized guests in a vmx/svm container where they don't > need most of the hooks. > We have no plans to drop support for non-vmx/svm capable processors, let alone require ept/npt. J -- 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/