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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: "akataria@vmware.com" <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VMI and kmap_atomic_pte paravirt_op
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:04:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1267175072.11737.11908.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1267129930.10104.4.camel@ank32>

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:32 +0000, Alok Kataria wrote:
> Hi Ian, 
> 
> On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:52 -0800, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Hi Alok,
> > 
> > How critical is the vmi_kmap_atomic_pte pv_mmu_op hook to VMI? Is it
> > required for correct functionality or is it simply an optimisation?
> > 
> > We think we may be able to do away with the Xen version of the hook and
> > if VMI (which is deprecated) can live without it and you agree then I'll
> > cook up a patch to remove it altogether.
> 
> As Jeremy suggests we will be fine with disabling high ptes for VMI. 
> Thanks for doing this. 

OK, I'll do that.

Thanks,
Ian.



      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26  9:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-25 19:52 Ian Campbell
2010-02-25 20:15 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-02-25 20:32 ` Alok Kataria
2010-02-26  9:04   ` Ian Campbell [this message]

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