Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

[Avi Kivity]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Ah.  But that's mostly modules, so real in-core changes should be very 
> >     
>
> Yes that's the big difference. Near all paravirt ops are concentrated
> on the core kernel, but this one affects lots of people.
>
> And why "but"? -- modules are as important as the core kernel. They're
> not second citizens.
>   

It's not being second class; simply few modules are loaded at runtime, 
so most of the code impact is on disk.  The in-code impact is small.  If 
paravirt i/o insns are worthwhile, I don't think code size is an issue.

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