Re: [benchmark] 1% performance overhead of paravirt_ops on native kernels

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> I'm not suggesting we should take broken code, or that we should lower
> standards just for xen.  But, expecting the xen developers to fix the 1%
> hit on a very specific micro-benchmark is not a way to promote new
> projects for the kernel, and it isn't a good way to convince people to
> do continued development in mainline instead of in private trees.

It's not a new project which needs to be treated with kid's gloves.
And one be sure that once the code is in the tree those interested
parties will not be as strongly motivated to fix any problem like
this.  Ingo pointed to a way which doesn't negatively impact the
performance of the Xen kernel and reduces the overhead (dynamic
patching).  Just get started on this (and general cleanup) and this
whole argument will go away.

I find it ridiculous to use the "but it's used" argument to try to
force the code into the kernel.  By this argument you can say the same
about crap like ndiswrapper and similarly harmful code.