[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <4AB5EF25.9070502@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:00:21 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, 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 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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....
>
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.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
--
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/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists