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Re: [Xen-devel] Cpu pools discussion



On 29/07/2009 12:06, "Juergen Gross" <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Would you feel better if I'd try to eliminate the reason for cpupool_borrow?
> This function is needed only for continue_hypercall_on_cpu outside of the
> current pool. I think it should be possible to replace those by
> on_selected_cpus with less impact on the whole system.

Some of the stuff in the continuation handlers cannot be executed in irq
context. 'Fixing' that would make many of the users ugly and less
maintainable, so getting borrow/return right is the better answer I think.

 -- Keir



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