linux-kernel - Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

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Message-ID: <20090920095239.456ad6f2@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:52:39 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> 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....


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