Re: [PATCH 3/3] Gdt page isolation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a 
> hypervisor.  This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other 
> hot data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems 
> in VMware.
> 
> Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT 
> (which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is 
> allocated dynamically.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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