From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"virtualization@lists.osdl.org" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:00:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB5EF25.9070502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090920095239.456ad6f2@infradead.org>
On 09/20/2009 10:52 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:42:47 +0200
> Ingo Molnar<mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>
>> If we were able to rip out all (or most) of paravirt from arch/x86 it
>> would be tempting for other technical reasons - but the patch above
>> is well localized.
>>
> interesting question is if this would allow us to remove a few of the
> paravirt hooks....
>
kvm will be removing the pvmmu support soon; and Xen is talking about
running paravirtualized guests in a vmx/svm container where they don't
need most of the hooks.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-20 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 0:17 Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI] Alok Kataria
2009-09-18 0:34 ` Chris Wright
2009-09-18 0:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-18 0:58 ` Chris Wright
2009-09-18 1:43 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-19 7:43 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-19 22:44 ` Greg KH
2009-09-20 1:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-20 3:56 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-20 3:59 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-20 7:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-20 7:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-20 9:00 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-09-20 15:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-20 19:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-20 19:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-09-22 8:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-22 16:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 18:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-22 18:16 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 19:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-22 19:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 7:22 ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-22 16:53 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 19:30 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-22 19:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 19:47 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-09-22 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-22 21:54 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-22 22:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-23 7:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-29 0:45 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 2:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-29 2:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-29 3:00 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 9:01 ` Chris Wright
2009-09-29 17:25 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 17:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-29 17:36 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 18:21 ` Chris Wright
2009-10-08 20:24 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for remval tip-bot for Alok Kataria
2009-10-08 20:34 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86, vmi: Mark VMI deprecated and schedule it for removal tip-bot for Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 8:08 ` Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI] Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-29 16:49 ` Alok Kataria
2009-09-29 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-29 17:55 ` Learning question regarding virtio and partvirt_ops Hank Janssen
2009-09-29 19:02 ` Brian Jackson
2009-10-02 3:00 ` Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI] Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-02 3:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-10-02 4:45 ` Alok Kataria
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