Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:23:43PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> Andi Kleen wrote:
>>     
>>>> I don't see why it's intrusive -- they all use the APIs, right?
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>> Yes, but it still changes them. It might have a larger impact
>>> on code size for example. 
>>>  
>>>       
>> Only if CONFIG_PARAVIRT is defined.  
>>     
>
> Which eventually distribution kernels will do.
>
>   
>> And even then, all the performance 
>> sensitive stuff uses mmio, no?
>>     
>
> Not worried about performance, but just impact on code size etc.
>   

Ah.  But that's mostly modules, so real in-core changes should be very 
small (say 10 bytes per call site X 10 callsites per driver X 10 
drivers... even if off by an order of magnitude it's still tiny)


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