From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Jack Lo <jlo@vmware.com>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, pazke@donpac.ru
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:52:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608050052.36535.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D3CCA1.1040503@vmware.com>
> For privileged domains that have hardware privileges and need to send
> IPIs or something it might make sense.
Any SMP guest needs IPI support of some sort.
But it is hopefully independent of subarchitectures in the paravirtualized
case.
> doesn't stop Linux from using the provided primitives in any way is
> sees fit. So it doesn't top evolution in that sense. What it does stop
> is having the Linux hypervisor interface grow antlers and have new
> hooves grafted onto it. What it sorely needed in the interface is a way
> to probe
That's the direction the interface is evolving I think (see multiple
entry point discussion)
> and detect optional features that allow it to grow independent
> of one particular hypervisor vendor.
Ok maybe not with options and subsets so far, but one has to
start somewhere.
-Andi
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2006-08-04 21:26 ` A proposal - binary Alan Cox
2006-08-05 1:14 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-05 5:37 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-05 10:42 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-05 11:50 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-04 22:01 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-04 22:39 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-04 22:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-08-04 22:43 ` David Lang
2006-08-05 10:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-05 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-05 1:30 ` James Bottomley
2006-08-05 4:33 ` Zachary Amsden
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