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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUERY] lguest64
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:25:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F91030.9060606@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731131757.GB22124@phenom.dumpdata.com>

On 07/31/2013 06:17 AM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>
>> The big problem with pvops is that they are a permanent tax on future
>> development -- a classic case of "the hooks problem."  As such it is
>> important that there be a real, significant, use case with enough users
>> to make the pain worthwhile.  With Xen looking at sunsetting PV support
>> with a long horizon, it might currently be possible to remove pvops some
> 
> PV MMU parts specifically.
> 

Pretty much stuff that is driverized on plain hardware doesn't matter.
What are you looking at with respect to the basic CPU control state?

	-hpa



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19  9:06 [QUERY] lguest64 Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 17:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-19 17:42   ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-19 18:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-19 20:36       ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-08-01 17:22       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-01 13:04         ` Alex Elsayed
2013-07-23  1:28   ` Rusty Russell
2013-07-31  9:39     ` Mike Rapoport
2013-07-31 12:17       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 13:07         ` Mike Rapoport
2013-07-31 13:19           ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 14:32             ` Mike Rapoport
2013-08-01  2:12           ` Rusty Russell
2013-08-02 14:27             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-31 13:17         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-31 13:25           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-08-02 19:09             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-08-04 12:37               ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-05 16:50                 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-08-05 16:59                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-05 17:16                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-31 15:31       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-01  7:18         ` Mike Rapoport
2013-08-08 19:15       ` Richard W.M. Jones

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