[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/1] intel8x0: [v2] Improve performance in virtual environment

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Oct 26 15:43:13 CEST 2011


At Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:29:37 +0400,
Konstantin Ozerkov wrote:
> 
> On 26.10.11 17:03, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Are the changes specific to x86, right?
> > boot_cpu_has() seems x86 only, and kvm_para_*() isn't provided for all
> > architectures.
> >
> > The best would be to provide a standard API for such detection.  But,
> > as a workaround, we may need a simple ifdef.
> Is this really needed ? This is driver for controllers which is used only (AFIK) with x86 and x86_64 CPUs.

I remember vaguely the implementation on PPC and others.  Who knows.
(And you can run a kernel in VM, right? :)


Takashi


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