Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Weight-balanced tree

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/23/2011 07:02 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >
> >  obj-$(CONFIG_WEIGHT_BALANCED_TREE) += wbtree.o
> >
> >  then kvm can select it, and the impact on non-kvm kernels is removed.
>
> Then we'd have issues trying to build an external kvm module for a
> pre-existing non-kvm kernel.  Do we care?

Officially, no.

What we typically do in these cases is copy the code into the kvm-kmod 
compatibility layer and compile it if the kernel doesn't supply it (like 
all older kernels regardless of config).

> If we were to take such a
> path, I think the default should be on, kvm would depend on it, but we
> could add an option to disable it for EMBEDDED/EXPERT.  Thanks,

That would work as well.

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