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Subject: Re: [CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt
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On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> =
wrote:

> On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>> I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monn=E9 =
Xen work into head.  The latest version of the patch I'm working on can =
be found here:
>>=20
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff
>>=20
>> I will continue my testing today and commit it tonight unless I hear =
complaints.  Comments, corrections, improvements, and bug reports =
welcome.
>=20
> Could this patch be split into functional and non-functional =
components?  It's
> distracting having everything mixed up together in a single megapatch. =
 Even
> committing the s/unlikely/__predict_false/ separately would help.

It could, but it would delay an already long delayed process in getting =
this work into the tree.

> How do you intend to have Xen HVM work in the GENERIC kernel =
configuration?
> Will you be adding 'options XENHVM' to GENERIC?

Yes.

--
Justin=