From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753931Ab2EHSGe (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 14:06:34 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58913 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751258Ab2EHSGc (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2012 14:06:32 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA96092.2090004@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 11:06:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" CC: Gleb Natapov , Paolo Bonzini , x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC dontapply 5/5] kvm_para: guest side for eoi avoidance References: <5e1399d9e743668a87f31d8f2b83cad862c60728.1334833141.git.mst@redhat.com> <4FA93B3F.3000906@redhat.com> <20120508152843.GE8988@redhat.com> <4FA93FA3.20306@zytor.com> <20120508165736.GA26795@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20120508165736.GA26795@redhat.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/08/2012 09:57 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Will do. OK to only define them for x86 for now? > They would be unused on other arches even if I defined them ... > I don't know if it's possible/practical to define them so they fall back to the fully atomic versions unless arch-overridden, but that would be the best, I would think. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.