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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: New CPUID/MSR driver; virtualization hooks
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:25:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4615693B.3060704@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4615659F.8070406@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> I guess what I was trying to say was that we'd use setgpr_wrapper in 
> the case where you have an entrypoint with native (non-C) semantics; 
> in the other case we'd use an alternative to setgpr_wrapper.  Either 
> way, it sounds like we're talking about implementing 
> paravirtualization *after* CPU selection, i.e. we use IPI to get the 
> thing running on the proper CPU before invoking the paravirtualization 
> function?

Yes, re-implementing the IPI support is rather unuseful.

Zach

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-05 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05  0:50 New CPUID/MSR driver; virtualization hooks H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05  1:16 ` Chris Wright
2007-04-05  1:23   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05  5:17     ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 18:03       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:09         ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:09           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:25             ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-04-05 21:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:27             ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:40               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:43                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 21:43                 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-04-05 21:49                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 21:59                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 22:19                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-05 22:31                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-05 21:54                   ` Chris Wright
2007-04-05  1:48 ` Tony Breeds
2007-04-05  5:00 ` Zachary Amsden

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