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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:37:19 -0700
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On 10/14/2011 10:02 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> Jump labels are essentially binary: you can use path A or path B.  pvops
> are multiway: there's no limit to the number of potential number of
> paravirtualized hypervisor implementations.  At the moment we have 4:
> native, Xen, KVM and lguest.
> 

This isn't (or shouldn't be) really true... it should be possible to do
an N-way jump label even if the current mechanism doesn't.

	-hpa