Re: [PATCH 6/8] KVM: PPC: Add support for multiple-TCE hcalls

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Thu Jul 11 2013 - 08:40:45 EST


On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:15 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> There are 2 ways of dealing with this:
>
> 1) Call the ENABLE_CAP on every vcpu. That way one CPU may handle
> this hypercall in the kernel while another one may not. The same as we
> handle PAPR today.
>
> 2) Create a new ENABLE_CAP for the vm.
>
> I think in this case option 1 is fine - it's how we handle everything
> else already.

So, you are now asking him to chose between a gross horror or adding a
new piece of infrastructure for something that is entirely pointless to
begin with ?

Come on, give him a break. That stuff is fine as it is.

Ben.


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