Re: [PATCH 24/24] make vsmp a paravirt client

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:09:41PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> If vsmp is selected, PARAVIRT will be too, and the interrupt code will
>> be patched.
>> the vsmp option triggers a select statement.
>> 
>> the ifdef only exists because, as I said, the code itself will be always
>> compiled in, to avoid an ifdef in setup_64.c. So it's just a taking it
>> from here, putting it there issue.
>
>Peeking around needlessly in pci config space at each boot just to avoid an 
>ifdef is not an good idea.

Agreed.  vsmp_init does not make sense unless the irq ops are patched.  We
can call vsmp_init under #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT.

Thanks,
Kiran
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