Re: [discuss] [patch] x86_64: align and pad x86_64 GDT on page boundary

[Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:26 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Well if the Xen people have such requirements they can submit
> separate patches. Currently they don't seem to be interested
> at all in submitting patches to mainline, so we must work
> with the VM hackers who are interested in this (scalex86, VMware) 
> And AFAIK they only care about not having false sharing in there.
> 


Agreed.  

Though do we need to have full page allocated for each gdt (256 bytes)
then? ...possibly use kmalloc.

-rohit

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