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From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:08:02 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization
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To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, hollisb@us.ibm.com

Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:39AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>  =20
>> Where is the other discussion?  I'd like to understand what's going on  =

>> here.. (especially since I added the wrtee[i] changes to kernel way =20
>> back when).
>>    =20
>
> Presumably, they want to be able to replace wrtee with a store to a
> hypervisor/guest shared memory area, and there's no store-immediate
> instruction.
>
> -Scott
>  =20
Exactly Scott

And for your question Kumar, in the last submission I was asked to split=20
host and guest patches.
So the host discussion lives on kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org as I mentioned=20
(maybe a bit too hidden)
in the [0/4] mail of this series.


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Gr=FCsse / regards,=20
Christian Ehrhardt
IBM Linux Technology Center, Open Virtualization