From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: proposed interface change for setting the ldt
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:18:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E682FB.6030609@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E681B8.3020804@vmware.com>
Zachary Amsden wrote:
> The paravirt-op just got a lot harder to implement, so there is a cost
> to the simpler interface.
I don't see why it is a "lot" harder. It might take 5 lines of code
rather than jumping straight into the ROM, but it doesn't seem like huge
complexity.
> I just think it's really weird to have LDT not described in the GDT,
> but LDT is weird anyways.
It gets excluded as part of a broader test which also prevents any
table, but specifically the LDT, from referring to an LDT (on the
grounds that its hard to reason about, and may be undefined).
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-19 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-18 10:42 proposed interface change for setting the ldt Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-18 12:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-18 13:03 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-18 20:23 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-19 2:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-19 3:12 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-19 3:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-19 3:22 ` Chris Wright
2006-08-19 3:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-19 4:32 ` Rusty Russell
2006-08-19 12:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-21 5:01 ` Zachary Amsden
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