Re: next-20081030: voyager compile busted

[H. Peter Anvin]

James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> Yes ... been having IRC conversations about that.  We'd need to use
> runtime patching to fix the performance regressions virtualisation has
> been causing us first ... but then we could use it for voyager.
> 

I thought we already were, at least to some degree (the call sites are
way too big and way bigger than they need to be, so we end up with a lot
of NOPs.  I proposed a solution to Jeremy at Kernel Summit, but he
basically said "I don't want to maintain that, I don't care about
hardware performance", which is understandable but highly unfortunate.)

	-hpa
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