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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Split up pv-ops
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:52:55 +0100
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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.
>   

So has this ended up in some tree yet?