On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 08:56:40AM -0700, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > I agree the whole idea of paravirtualization is a hack, but it is a > > hack to workaround some poor architectural design decisions many years > > ago by Intel processor designers who should have known better. Go yell > > at them. > > > > Worse, the rdtscp instruction was a poor design decision by AMD > > processor designers to hack around tsc skew problems. Go yell at them > > too. > > > > And both Intel and AMD chose to perpetuate the problem with a > > complicated VT/SVM implementation that will never perform as well as > > native. At least they tried ;-) > > Looks like xen people seem to know better so maybe they should design > their own processor, add xen support for it and leave the linux kernel > alone so that both camps can finally get on with their lives. I know that it is obvious but it is worth stating it in clear letters: these are Dan's personal opinions and by no means represent the position of the Xen community as a whole on this topic. I, for one, have no idea what he is talking about. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
