Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2023-10-19 15:41:40]: > >> Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > The ability to detect if the system is running in a shared processor >> > mode is helpful in few more generic cases not just in >> > paravirtualization. >> > For example: At boot time, different scheduler/ topology flags may be >> > set based on the processor mode. Hence move it to a more generic file. >> >> I'd rather you just included paravirt.h in the few files where you need it. > > I thought, detecting if a Processor was shared or not was more a > smp/processor related than a paravirt related. It's both really :) It's definitely paravirt related though, because if we weren't *para*virt then we wouldn't know there was a hypervisor at all :) But having smaller more focused headers is preferable in general just for mechanical reasons. cheers _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
