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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC dontapply 5/5] kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 11:06:10 -0700
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Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, x86@kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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On 05/08/2012 09:57 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> Will do. OK to only define them for x86 for now?
> They would be unused on other arches even if I defined them ...
> 

I don't know if it's possible/practical to define them so they fall back
to the fully atomic versions unless arch-overridden, but that would be
the best, I would think.

	-hpa


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