On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 01:37:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Zachary Amsden <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > i386 Transparent paravirtualization sub-arch patch #8.
> >
> > Transparent paravirtualization support for MMU operations.
> >
> > All operations which update live page table entries have been moved to the
> > sub-architecture layer. Unfortunately, this required yet another parallel set
> > of pgtable-Nlevel-ops.h files, but this avoids the ugliness of having to use
> > #ifdef's all of the code.
> >
> > This is pure code motion. Anything else would be a bug.
>
> I think that patch is really ugly - it makes hacking VM on i386
> even more painful than it already is because the convolutes the file
> structure even more. Hope it is not applied.
Especially as there's been no user shown for it, similar to all the other
ugly patches from vmware.
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