From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:16:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CC6150.6050105@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46CBF5DD.6040300@qumranet.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> Since this is only for newer kernels, won't updating the driver to use
> a hypercall be more efficient? Or is this for existing out-of-tree
> drivers?
Actually, it is for in-tree drivers that we emulate but don't want to
pollute, and one out of tree driver (that will hopefully be in tree
soon!) that has no way to determine if making hypercalls is acceptable.
Zach
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-22 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-22 5:23 [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 5:34 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 5:40 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 8:37 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:16 ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-08-22 6:25 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 10:35 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 9:51 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 10:23 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 11:23 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:09 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 13:15 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 12:32 ` Avi Kivity
2007-08-22 16:11 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <1188237281.5972.69.camel@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <46D3C60B.3050605@vmware.com>
2007-08-28 11:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-22 6:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-22 6:03 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-24 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-22 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 16:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 17:07 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 19:46 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 20:43 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 22:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-22 21:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:41 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-23 5:34 ` Rusty Russell
2007-08-22 21:45 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-22 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-22 21:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-22 22:15 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:20 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 22:29 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2007-08-22 22:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-08-22 23:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-23 0:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-23 0:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-23 2:34 ` Andi Kleen
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