Re: [PATCH 7/24] consolidate msr.h

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > With PVOPS on it gives compiler warnings without that explict cast. > > Without looking at the code, IIRC with non-PVOPS it is a macro > > directly into asm, so it didn't matter what the cast was. But wit

Re: [PATCH 7/24] consolidate msr.h

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i dont think there's ever any true need (and good cause) to force > integer type casts like that at the callee site. Unless you mean we should do something like this: static inline void __wrmsrl(unsigned int msr, unsigned long long val); #define wrmsr(

Re: [PATCH 7/24] consolidate msr.h

2007-11-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:42:48PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > > - wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ia32_cstar_target); > > > + wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, (u64)ia32_cstar_target); > > > > Hmm, why do you add explicit casts? The compiler should convert that

Re: [PATCH 7/24] consolidate msr.h

2007-11-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:42:48PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > - wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, ia32_cstar_target); > > + wrmsrl(MSR_CSTAR, (u64)ia32_cstar_target); > > Hmm, why do you add explicit casts? The compiler should convert that > correc

Re: [PATCH 5/24] smp x86 consolidation

2007-11-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting link errors in 32-bit: > > > > arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o: In function `native_smp_send_reschedule': > > /home/jeremy/hg/xen/paravirt/linux/arch/x86/kernel/smpcommon.c:262: > > undefined reference to `genapic' > > arch/x86/k

Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: free transmit skbs when notified, not on next xmit.

2007-11-19 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Montag, 19. November 2007 schrieb Rusty Russell: > This fixes a potential dangling xmit problem. > > We also suppress refill interrupts until we need them. > (Anthony and I have been working on performance recently, so this > is a WIP). > > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tha