Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:32:39 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >> Ah. But that's mostly modules, so real in-core changes should be very >> > > Yes that's the big difference. Near all paravirt ops are concentrated > on the core kernel, but this one affects lots of people. > > And why "but"? -- modules are as important as the core kernel. They're > not second citizens. >
It's not being second class; simply few modules are loaded at runtime, so most of the code impact is on disk. The in-code impact is small. If paravirt i/o insns are worthwhile, I don't think code size is an issue.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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