Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

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On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:49 -0800, Dan Hecht wrote:
> On 03/07/2007 12:11 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Dan Hecht wrote:
> >> Jeremy, I saw you sent out the Xen version earlier, thanks.  Here's
> >> ours for reference (please excuse any formating issues); it's also
> >> lean. We'll send out a proper patch later after some more testing:
> > 
> > So the interrupt side of the clockevent comes through the virtual apic? 
> > Where does evt->handle_event get called?
> > 
> 
> Yeah, we use the same interrupt handlers as normal i386: timer_interrupt 
> and smp_apic_timer_interrupt.  That way we don't need to duplicate the 
> interrupt handler code.

Oh well. Here we are again. 2 hypervisors - 4 different views on how to
inject events into the kernel.

This is the complete wrong approach. Paravirtualization should not abuse
existing hardware drivers. It should just provide their own sane
abstract implementation.

Please stop this _NOW_

	tglx


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