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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   If code assumes it is a simple compile-time constant in the 
> non-paravirt case, it will break paravirt.  At least making it clearly 
> C syntax will prevent people from putting it into asm or .lds files.
>
> But it still seems to me it could be a variable either way.  Are there 
> any performance-critical users of it?

Well, there is the APIC mapping, which is now non-constant.  We should 
at least do a simple measurement to show what the impact is, but I 
expect it to be unmeasurable.

Zach


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