Re: [PATCH RFC V5 00/11] Paravirtualized ticketlocks

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On 10/14/2011 11:37 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 10:02 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Jump labels are essentially binary: you can use path A or path B.  pvops
>> are multiway: there's no limit to the number of potential number of
>> paravirtualized hypervisor implementations.  At the moment we have 4:
>> native, Xen, KVM and lguest.
>>
> This isn't (or shouldn't be) really true... it should be possible to do
> an N-way jump label even if the current mechanism doesn't.

We probably don't want all those implementations (near) inline, so they
would end up being plain function calls anyway.

    J
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