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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/11] Add a CPU KHZ calibration function to paravirt-ops
Date: 6 Feb 2007 13:26:28 +0100
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 13:26:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070206122628.GB47229@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702060353.l163rNP7000763@zach-dev.vmware.com>

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:53:23PM -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Provide a paravirtualized way to get the CPU clock frequency; this allows much
> of the code in tsc.c to be shared between all paravirt implementations.

Is this really needed? 

What worries me somewhat of your patches is that you seem
to be quick at adding new hooks. But I would like to keep
paravirtops as minimal as possible with new hooks only
added when there is a very good justification.

I don't see it here.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06  3:53 [PATCH 8/11] Add a CPU KHZ calibration function to paravirt-ops Zachary Amsden
2007-02-06 12:26 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-02-06 21:54   ` Zachary Amsden

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