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xen-ppc-devel
Re: [XenPPC] [PATCH] Enable SMP and IPIs
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:54:47AM -0400, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Amos Waterland wrote:
> > Note that the flurry of IPIs generated by domain creation seems to
> > be a waste of time. Xen on x86 doesn't actually to do anything in
> > response to them, so I have made Xen on PPC properly deliver the
> > event check but then do nothing as well. Comments?
What do you think we should be doing in response to these event check
IPIs? I thought that there were hopes of improving interactivity of
single-cpu systems ...
> I know this is RFC, and you know I'm a bug fan of BUG(), but
> eventually I'd expect:
> BUG_ON(!action)
> if (!action)
> return -ENOMEM
I think your comments here are predicated on the assumption that BUG
macros become noops when not compiling with debug. That is not the case
in Xen, so I thought it was a waste of time to put in extra code. Do
you think it might someday not be the case?
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