linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC dontapply 5/5] kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance

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Date:	Tue, 08 May 2012 11:06:10 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC dontapply 5/5] kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance

On 05/08/2012 09:57 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> Will do. OK to only define them for x86 for now?
> They would be unused on other arches even if I defined them ...
> 

I don't know if it's possible/practical to define them so they fall back
to the fully atomic versions unless arch-overridden, but that would be
the best, I would think.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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