From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:00:21 -0700 Message-ID: <46EB1285.5050807@goop.org> References: <11897991353793-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com><46EAF4C6.8090903@goop.org> <46EAF6FC.80207@codemonkey.ws><46EAFBA0.4020503@goop.org> <46EB0136.6080105@codemonkey.ws><46EB02BA.6030909@goop.org> <46EB0657.40603@codemonkey.ws> <97D612E30E1F88419025B06CB4CF1BE10379EBF9@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Avi Kivity , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Nakajima, Jun" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <97D612E30E1F88419025B06CB4CF1BE10379EBF9-1a9uaKK1+wJcIJlls4ac1rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Nakajima, Jun wrote: >>> one. Start the kvm leaves at 0x40001000 or something? >>> >>> >> Yeah, that works with me. >> > > To me this is the beginning of fragmentation. Why do we need different > and VMM-specific Linux paravirtualization for hardware-assisted > virtualization? That would not be good for Linux. > On the contrary. Xen already has a hypercall interface, and we need to keep supporting it. If we were to also support a vmm-independent interface (aka "kvm interface"), then we need to be able to do that in parallel. If we have a cpuid leaf clash, then its impossible to do so; if we define the new interface to be disjoint from other current users of cpuid, then we can support them concurrently. J ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/