Re: [PATCH 3/3] x86, platform, kconfig: add virtconfig defconfig helper

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 05:13:57 EST


On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 11:01 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:35:39AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > Actually what I meant was to *replace* kvmconfig with virtconfig and
> > then add the Xen stuff to it, i.e. to have a single thing to maintain
> > for all virt platforms, rather than end up with all 3 options.
> >
> > I think the overhead of having some Xen stuff enabled in .config when
> > running on KVM and vice versa is small.
>
> Hmm, no. I'm running my kvm-enabled configs on baremetal too and I
> wouldn't want any overhead at all. So kvmconfig and xenconfig should be
> separate targets with separate config files please.

NB the overhead I meant was a few kbs of .text and modules, not runtime
overhead.

Ian.

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