WARNING - OLD ARCHIVES

This is an archived copy of the Xen.org mailing list, which we have preserved to ensure that existing links to archives are not broken. The live archive, which contains the latest emails, can be found at http://lists.xen.org/
   
 
 
Xen 
 
Home Products Support Community News
 
   
 

xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: Pack some hvmop memory structures bette

To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen: Pack some hvmop memory structures better
From: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:30:14 +0000
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Delivery-date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:32:22 -0800
Envelope-to: www-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <4D4C2834.9070204@xxxxxxxxxx>
List-help: <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=help>
List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
List-post: <mailto:xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
List-subscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=subscribe>
List-unsubscribe: <http://lists.xensource.com/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel>, <mailto:xen-devel-request@lists.xensource.com?subject=unsubscribe>
References: <dffa1a0edc8c6e2aa879.1296833298@elijah> <4D4C2834.9070204@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)
At 16:24 +0000 on 04 Feb (1296836660), Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Am I missing something glaring, or this is breaking the ABI between 
> hypervisor and kernels?

It only breaks the ABI between xen and tools, which are supposed always
to be version-matched.  I'm not sure that it's particularly worthwhile
though - at first glance it's saving about ten bytes of argument space.
Unless these operations are happening in large batches?

Tim.

-- 
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, Xen Platform Team
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel