Re: [PATCH] Bugfix for VMI paravirt ops

[Zachary Amsden]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Zachary Amsden wrote:
>   
> > Do you mean kmap_atomic_pfn?
> >     
>
> Yes.
>
>   
> >   kunmap_atomic can stay lazy (at least for VMI), actually, but it
> > doesn't help since it happens outside the spin lock.
> >     
>
> May as well be consistent.  Or do you mean you can't flush outside the
> spinlock, even if there's nothing pending?
>   

Consistency is good.  Flush is always fine, just an extra function call.

Zach

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