From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
To: Ky Srinivasan <ksrinivasan@novell.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: supervisory_mode_kernel
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:01:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163602880.16115.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455AD3FA.E57C.0030.0@novell.com>
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:52 -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> Sorry for asking an imprecise question. I understand the mechanism for turning
> on this flag. What was not clear to me was when we would turn this on.
Probably never.
It was mainly intended as a proof of concept. There once was an idea
that it might be possible run a Xen/linux kernel+a thin shim on bare
metal with negligible loss of performance. With the paravirt ops
approach being taken with the upstreaming work there is little point in
that anymore.
Ian.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-15 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-14 21:38 supervisory_mode_kernel Ky Srinivasan
2006-11-15 9:52 ` supervisory_mode_kernel Ian Campbell
2006-11-15 14:52 ` supervisory_mode_kernel Ky Srinivasan
2006-11-15 15:01 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
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