Re: [PATCH 0/3] Split up pv-ops

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 11/18/2009 02:13 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Paravirt ops is currently only capable of either replacing a lot of Linux
> internal code or none at all. The are users that don't need all of the
> possibilities pv-ops delivers though.
>
> On KVM for example we're perfectly fine not using the PV MMU, thus not
> touching any MMU code. That way we don't have to improve pv-ops to become
> fast, we just don't compile the MMU parts in!
>
> This patchset splits pv-ops into several smaller config options split by
> feature category and then converts the KVM pv-ops code to use only the
> bits that are required, lowering overhead.
>
> Alexander Graf (3):
>    Split paravirt ops by functionality
>    Only export selected pv-ops feature structs
>    Split the KVM pv-ops support by feature
>
>    

The whole thing looks good to me.  Let's wait for Jeremy to ack though.

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