On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 01:10:03PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 08/07/14 21:52, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> > > > > By default when CONFIG_XEN and CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM kernels are > > run, they will enable the PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers, > > etc) - which is perfect. > > If it's "perfect" what's this option for? ;)
:-) > > I think you mean to say "which is the best option for the majority of > use cases". Yes! > > > However, in some cases (kexec not fully wokring, benchmarking) > > we want to disable Xen PV extensions. As such introduce the > > 'xen_nopv' parameter that will do it. > > "working" > > I'm unconvinced about the utility of this option. The resulting kernel > will go like molasses and I'm not sure what the use of being any to > benchmark a configuration no one will use in practice. But it's a small > patch so > > Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <[email protected]> Thank you. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel -- 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/
