From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:37:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519123728.GA2377@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090519133206.173a2ddf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > - or introduce its own hypercall API based administration API,
> > without bothering the guest kernel with crap. Trivially patch Xorg
> > to make use of it and that's it.
>
> PCI pass through mixed with that isn't going to be fun and PCI
> pass through is one area where a lot of the MTRR manipulation is
> meaningful and valid (and can be handled for the guest).
virtualizing that aspect of the CPU properly is certainly the
highest grade approach.
> I really don't see why rd/wrmsr processing isn't sufficient for
> this
/me neither.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-19 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 23:27 [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen: set cpu_callout_mask to make mtrr work Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] xen mtrr: Use specific cpu_has_foo macros instead of generic cpu_has() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] xen mtrr: Use generic_validate_add_page() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] xen mtrr: Implement xen_get_free_region() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] xen mtrr: Add xen_{get,set}_mtrr() implementations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] xen mtrr: Kill some unnecessary includes Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-13 13:30 ` [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation Ingo Molnar
2009-05-13 14:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-15 18:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-15 20:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-15 23:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-15 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-16 3:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-16 4:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-16 18:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-18 5:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-18 4:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-18 8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-18 13:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-05-18 17:51 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-18 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-19 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 10:22 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-05-19 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 12:04 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 12:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-19 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-05-19 13:21 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 13:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 14:55 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 15:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-20 8:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-20 16:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 16:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-20 16:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 22:52 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-20 22:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-25 8:42 [Xen-devel] " Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-25 9:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-25 9:31 ` Jan Beulich
2009-05-25 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-25 16:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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