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
next prev parent 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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