[PATCH 4/4] kvmppc: convert wrteei to wrtee as kvm guest optimization

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Aug 22 02:16:22 EST 2008


On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:39AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Where is the other discussion?  I'd like to understand what's going on  
> here.. (especially since I added the wrtee[i] changes to kernel way  
> back when).

Presumably, they want to be able to replace wrtee with a store to a
hypervisor/guest shared memory area, and there's no store-immediate
instruction.

-Scott



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