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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC/RFB] x86_64, i386: interrupt dispatch changes

    * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:

    > * Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm> wrote:
    >
    > > > My estimation is that if we do it right, your approach will behave
    > > > better on modern CPUs (which is what matters most for such
    > > > things), especially on real workloads where there's a considerable
    > > > instruction-cache pressure. But it should be measured in any case.
    > >
    > > Fully agreed. I will do some measurements in the near future, maybe
    > > next week. At least noone came up with an absolutely blocking
    > > problem with this approach ;).
    >
    > how about "it does not build with lguest enabled" as a blocking
    > problem? ;-)
    >
    > arch/x86/lguest/built-in.o: In function `lguest_init_IRQ':
    > boot.c:(.init.text+0x33f): undefined reference to `interrupt'
    >
    > config attached.

    ... other than that it booted fine on a few testboxes here. That's
    still not an exhaustive test by any means, but it's promising.

    Ingo


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