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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravi

To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:41:37 -0700
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* Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Is it truly critical to inline any of these instructions?

I don't have any current measurements.  But we'd been aiming
at getting irq_{en,dis}able to a simple memory write to pda.
But simplicity, maintenance, etc. win over trimming a couple
cycles, so still worth real look.

thanks,
-chris

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