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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][v3] PV featured HVM(hybrid) support in Xen

To: Sheng Yang <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][v3] PV featured HVM(hybrid) support in Xen
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:09:36 +0000
Cc: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 08/02/2010 08:31, "Sheng Yang" <sheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Why can't you leave LAPIC available for things like INIT-SIPI-SIPI, and
>> simply not use it for things you need higher perf for?
> 
> I am not quite understand why we need to stick to INIT-SIPI-SIPI. For the
> physical cpus, we can't tell their state directly, so we need a protocol, like
> INIT-SIPI-SIPI; but for virtual cpus, we have hypercall as our protocol, so we
> can easily tell them when and where to start, which is much more directly like
> PV domU did.

Fine, I guess.

 -- Keir



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