* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > * Daniel Arai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >> There's no good way to override __send_IPI_shortcut. I suppose we could > >> add > >> paravirt ops for __send_IPI_shortcut and every other op that touches the > >> APIC. > >> > > > > While that's basically what we did in Xen, it would make more sense to > > build it into genapic which would give us one common abstraction to base > > from. We should avoid adding pv_ops when existing infrastructure exists. > > I was looking at cutting in at a much higher level. The interface in > <linux/smp.h> is a good match for Xen, so I was going to investigate > making pv_ops at that level and see how it falls out.
I agree with that, but I think that's esp. for things like create and launch new vcpu. The IPI bit I'm not as clear on, nor running this all on native as well. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
