From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933017AbXCEOTP (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:19:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933453AbXCEOTO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:19:14 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:42388 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933017AbXCEOTO (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:19:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:10:23 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Avi Kivity Cc: Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Roland McGrath , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [patch] paravirt: VDSO page is essential Message-ID: <20070305141023.GC9146@elte.hu> References: <20070305120631.GA14105@elte.hu> <45EC0EB7.7080300@qumranet.com> <20070305142820.GD22829@bingen.suse.de> <20070305134854.GA31542@elte.hu> <20070305145847.GH22829@bingen.suse.de> <20070305135918.GA32380@elte.hu> <45EC24CA.1020707@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45EC24CA.1020707@qumranet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Avi Kivity wrote: > kvm paravirt is only used by developers at this time. I don't have a > problem with solving this in the 2.6.22 timeframe. oh, certainly, with a KVM hat on i'd agree. But i also have my cares-about-i386-arch-cleanliness and cares-about-Linux-maintainability hats on ;-) I only mentioned KVM as an example that it /can/ be done cleanly. Ingo