Re: [PATCH] Bugfix for VMI paravirt ops

Zachary Amsden
2007-04-06T01:44:14Z

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
>> Do you mean kmap_atomic_pfn?
>>
>
> Yes.
>
>
>> kunmap_atomic can stay lazy (at least for VMI), actually, but it
>> doesn't help since it happens outside the spin lock.
>>
>
> May as well be consistent. Or do you mean you can't flush outside the
> spinlock, even if there's nothing pending?
>

Consistency is good. Flush is always fine, just an extra function call.

Zach