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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow direct hypercalls

To: john.levon@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Allow direct hypercalls
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 16:16:33 +0100
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On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 05:56 -0700, john.levon@xxxxxxx wrote:
> For PV guests, there's no reason to force use of the indirect hypercall
> mechanism. Allow it.

It was originally intended to provide some flexibility to the hypervisor
in how hypercalls were performed, encouraging new guests to use it seems
rather counter to this -- why do you want to use them?

Ian.



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