Re: [Lguest] [PATCH RFC/RFB] x86_64, i386: interrupt dispatch changes

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>> ...
>>   
>>> Once it's done there's no reason not to commit it.  But the effort expended
>>> to do it is gone, without any measurable return.
>>>
>>>     
>> ...
>>
>> Not sure Avi what you mean but as far as I know Alexander is working on
>> this file so he need just time to finish (we all have other duties you know :).
>> So I think the idea Peter proposed could be merged right after Alexander
>> will have finished. At least the Peter's suggestion was recorded in this
>> thread which means it will *not* be lost eventually. Or you meant something
>> else (yep, I could have it translated plain wrong)?
>>   
>
> What I mean is that hpa's patch makes the kernel better, so it should 
> be applied.  I'm not sure what else Alexander is working on, but I do 
> hope the improvements will be more concrete.

that is what happened three weeks ago already on Nov 11, we applied
Peter's patches to tip/x86/irq:

   939b787: x86: 64 bits: shrink and align IRQ stubs
   b7c6244: x86: 32 bits: shrink and align IRQ stubs

it's all in the x86 tree and in linux-next as well. Alexander and Peter 
are working on this together, not against each other. Alexander was still 
running some numbers to make sure we made the right decision.

	Ingo