Re: [Xen-devel] supervisory_mode_kernel

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 07:52 -0700, Ky Srinivasan wrote:
> Sorry for asking an imprecise question. I understand the mechanism for turning
> on this flag. What was not clear to me was when we would turn this on. 

Probably never.

It was mainly intended as a proof of concept. There once was an idea
that it might be possible run a Xen/linux kernel+a thin shim on bare
metal with negligible loss of performance. With the paravirt ops
approach being taken with the upstreaming work there is little point in
that anymore.

Ian.


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