Re: + stupid-hack-to-make-mainline-build.patch added to -mm tree

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Daniel Arai (arai@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>   
>> There's no good way to override __send_IPI_shortcut.  I suppose we could add 
>> paravirt ops for __send_IPI_shortcut and every other op that touches the APIC. 
>>     
>
> While that's basically what we did in Xen, it would make more sense to
> build it into genapic which would give us one common abstraction to base
> from.  We should avoid adding pv_ops when existing infrastructure exists.
>   

I was looking at cutting in at a much higher level.  The interface in
<linux/smp.h> is a good match for Xen, so I was going to investigate
making pv_ops at that level and see how it falls out.

    J
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