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    SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks
    On 10/14/2011 11:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > On 10/14/2011 10:02 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
    >> Jump labels are essentially binary: you can use path A or path B. pvops
    >> are multiway: there's no limit to the number of potential number of
    >> paravirtualized hypervisor implementations. At the moment we have 4:
    >> native, Xen, KVM and lguest.
    >>
    > This isn't (or shouldn't be) really true... it should be possible to do
    > an N-way jump label even if the current mechanism doesn't.

    We probably don't want all those implementations (near) inline, so they
    would end up being plain function calls anyway.

    J


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