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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] flush.S not para-virtualized

To: "Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] flush.S not para-virtualized
From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:51:54 +0100
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Le Lundi 27 Mars 2006 17:24, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) a écrit :
> Agreed, this needs to be paravirtualized.
So, everybody agree.
I will add a fc.i hyperprivop.

However, I fear the hyperprivop-ized version of flush.S would be very slow.  
Should we also create an hyperprivop for something like flush_icache_range ?

Tristan.


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