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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:46:34 -0500 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com> To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Olaf Hering <ohering@...e.de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: privcmd: schedule() after private hypercall when non CONFIG_PREEMPT On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...e.com> wrote: > I'm afraid we don't have much leg room. Let me be clear, I still think putting some hypercalls in process context *might help* but because of notes 1) and 2) I highlighted I think this is the best we can do, with more information we should be able to consider weighing pros / cons with actual metrics from alternatives, without more information we're just shooting in the dark and the last thing I want is to see APIs abused or setting precedents. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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