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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] x86/paravirt: remove lazy mode in interrupts
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:53:57 -0800
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On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 14:30 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
> 
> Make paravirt_lazy_mode() always return PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE
> when in an interrupt.  This prevents interrupt code from
> accidentally inheriting an outer lazy state, and instead
> does everything synchronously.  Outer batched operations
> are left deferred.

This looks like a good solution, but can you make paravirt_lazy_mode()
inline?  It doesn't need to be a function call.

Zach