Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-22T21:29:36Z

Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 00:42 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> The thing is, the overwhelming majority of vmware users dont benefit
>> from hardware features like nested page tables yet. So this needs to be
>> done _way_ more carefully, with a proper sunset period of a couple of
>> kernel cycles.
>
> I am fine with that too. Below is a patch which adds notes in
> feature-removal-schedule.txt, I have marked it for removal from 2.6.34.
> Please consider this patch for 2.6.32.
>

This seems way, way too early still.

-hpa