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Re: [Xen-devel] rendezvousing all physical CPUs

To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] rendezvousing all physical CPUs
From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:33:11 -0700
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On 11/30/06, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would suspect there could be other uses - for instance, I don't think
having the microcode update code in Xen is the right thing, it could
easily live in Dom0 (which would also cause less work merging back
updates from Linux into Xen) if that had a way of bringing all physical
CPUs to a known state.

yeah, make sense to me. I am just getting back into Xen after some
time away, but I'm surprised there is not a way to do this.

thanks

ron

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