[Lguest] [PATCH RFC/RFB] x86_64, i386: interrupt dispatch changes

[Alexander van Heukelum]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:54:09 +0100, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo at elte.hu> said:
> 
> * Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
> > > My estimation is that if we do it right, your approach will behave 
> > > better on modern CPUs (which is what matters most for such 
> > > things), especially on real workloads where there's a considerable 
> > > instruction-cache pressure. But it should be measured in any case.
> > 
> > Fully agreed. I will do some measurements in the near future, maybe 
> > next week. At least noone came up with an absolutely blocking 
> > problem with this approach ;).
> 
> how about "it does not build with lguest enabled" as a blocking 
> problem? ;-)

Blocking for applying the patch as is, sure... As a proof of concept
it is still fine ;).

>   arch/x86/lguest/built-in.o: In function `lguest_init_IRQ':
>   boot.c:(.init.text+0x33f): undefined reference to `interrupt'

It just needs to be fixed. I guess similar problems are to
be expected with xen or um.

Thanks,
    Alexander

> config attached.
> 
> 	Ingo
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