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RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows

To: "Tristan Gingold" <tgingold@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows
From: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:31:55 +0800
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>From: Tristan Gingold [mailto:tgingold@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 2007年4月28日 21:40
>To: Xu, Anthony
>Cc: Alex Williamson; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] optimization for windows
>
>> I had been thinking of this issue.
>> What I concern is, this optimization is specific to windows.
>> So if user sets "guest = windows", and runs linux as guest,
>> This may make guest linux behave strangely, or crash.
>> Yes, you can say this is user's fault, but user may complain.
>We may add an hypercall to select per-guest optimizations.  And create
>an EFI utility to enabled these optimizations.
>
>Such an hypercall should be common to PV and VTI.
>
>If the user incorrectly set an optimization it's his problem.

I don't have preference on automatic detect or using configure option.
Seems, community like to use configure option.

That's OK for me, I'll try to add a configure option about guest.

Thanks,
Anthony
 

>
>Tristan.

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