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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V11 15/18] kvm : Paravirtual ticketlocks support for
	linux guests running on KVM hypervisor
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 10:05:38 -0400 (EDT)
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> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > > 
> > > I guess you'd want to carry this in the KVM tree or so - maybe in a
> > > separate branch because it changes Xen as well?
> > 
> > It changes KVM host and guest side, XEN and common x86 spinlock code. I
> > think it would be best to merge common x86 spinlock bits and guest side
> > KVM/XEN bits through tip tree and host KVM part will go through KVM
> > tree. If this is OK with you, Ingo, and XEN folks Raghavendra can send
> > two separate patch series one for the tip and one for KVM host side.
> 
> Sure, that's fine - if the initial series works fine in isolation as well
> (i.e. won't break anything).

It would be a big problem if it didn't!  Raghavendra, please send the
two separate series as Gleb explained above.

Thanks,

Paolo