From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Time to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT non-experimental.
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:34:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190151272.7262.175.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709181257.41530.ak@suse.de>
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 12:57 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 14 September 2007 07:21, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > It's pretty widely used,
>
> Is it? By whom?
Hi Andi,
Please stop asking for facts! It's was easy claim to make, and hard to
disprove 8)
> > and the distributions will turn it on.
>
> That's no reason to make it default y. Please undo that. default y
> is near always a bad idea.
How about a "select" based on Xen, lguest or VMI? There's no other
reason to enable it, after all.
> Also I would still consider it experimental.
After 9 months in mainline and three kernel versions, I'd hope not.
It's been pretty damn stable (ok, you broke it once, but maybe that's
because you consider it experimental).
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-14 5:17 [PATCH 1/3] Normalize config options for guest support Rusty Russell
2007-09-14 5:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu Rusty Russell
2007-09-14 5:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] Time to make CONFIG_PARAVIRT non-experimental Rusty Russell
2007-09-18 10:57 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-18 20:04 ` Charles N Wyble
2007-09-18 20:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-18 20:27 ` Charles N Wyble
2007-09-18 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-20 15:45 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-20 16:09 ` Charles N Wyble
2007-09-20 16:47 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-18 21:34 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-09-18 21:52 ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-19 1:53 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-19 3:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-19 10:43 ` Ian Campbell
2007-09-14 16:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu Randy Dunlap
2007-09-14 20:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-15 3:05 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-15 8:49 ` Alexey Eremenko
2007-09-16 7:43 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-16 14:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-17 19:31 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-09-17 23:30 ` Charles N Wyble
2007-09-18 0:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-18 20:11 ` Charles N Wyble
2007-09-19 9:38 ` Alexey Eremenko
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