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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Native Linux KVM tool
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:27:16 +0300
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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Hi Jan,

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 09:39 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> I agree that it's easy to change 2kSomething LOC for this. But if you
> now wait too long designing in essential features like SMP, a scalable
> execution model, and - very important - portability (*), it can get
> fairly painful to fix such architectural deficits later on. How long did
> it take for Linux to overcome the BKL? QEMU is in the same unfortunate
> position.

Yup, and we're taking your feedback seriously (and are thankful for
it!). We're hoping to look at SMP in the near future - help is
appreciated!

			Pekka