[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: paravirt_ops support in IA64

2008-02-18 Thread Dong, Eddie
Isaku Yamahata wrote: 2: Same IVT source code, but dual/mulitple compile to generate dual/multiple IVT table. I.e. we replace those primitive ops (sensitive instructions) with a MACRO which uses compile option for different hypervisor type. The pseudo code of the MACRO

[Xen-ia64-devel] RE: paravirt_ops support in IA64

2008-02-17 Thread Zhang, Xiantao
Dong, Eddie wrote: In X86, there are another enhancement (dynamic patching) base on pv_ops. The purpose is to improve cpu predication by converting indriect function call to direct function call for both C ASM code. We may take similar approach some time later too. We