On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 20:41 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > * Zachary Amsden (zach at vmware.com) wrote: > > > >> The paravirt-op just got a lot harder to implement, so there is a cost > >> to the simpler interface. > >> > > > > I'm missing why it's a lot harder. Seems reasonably straight forward. > > puzzled... > > > > Before it could be a direct call for us. Now I am forced to write a > wrapper function around it which does exactly the same work as the > native code, them calls a ROM function. It is straight forward, but > obviously undesirable. It sounds fine to me, although I'd like to see the patch. I don't have anything against higher-level abstractions, if it helps any hypervisor, as long as it doesn't warp the kernel code. And if most hypervisors and native break it down the same way, well, we can always create helpers. Cheers, Rusty. -- Help! Save Australia from the worst of the DMCA: http://linux.org.au/law
