Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-27 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 26/03/2020 15:05, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 26.03.2020 15:50, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On a perhaps tangential note, what (if anything) are you plans regarding >> backport here? >> >> These defines are ok for a transitional period across a series (and >> probably means I'll need to get the AMD side

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-26 Thread Jan Beulich
On 26.03.2020 15:50, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On a perhaps tangential note, what (if anything) are you plans regarding > backport here? > > These defines are ok for a transitional period across a series (and > probably means I'll need to get the AMD side ready to be committed at > the same time), bu

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-26 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 26/03/2020 12:24, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 25.03.2020 15:32, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 25/03/2020 14:16, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> On 23.03.2020 11:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: Currently, we allocate an 8 byte struct microcode_patch to point at a separately allocated struct microcode_intel.

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-26 Thread Jan Beulich
On 25.03.2020 15:32, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 25/03/2020 14:16, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 23.03.2020 11:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> Currently, we allocate an 8 byte struct microcode_patch to point at a >>> separately allocated struct microcode_intel. This is wasteful. >> As indicated elsewhere I'

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-25 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 25/03/2020 14:16, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 23.03.2020 11:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> Currently, we allocate an 8 byte struct microcode_patch to point at a >> separately allocated struct microcode_intel. This is wasteful. > As indicated elsewhere I'm very much in favor of this, but I think it > w

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] x86/ucode/intel: Fold structures together

2020-03-25 Thread Jan Beulich
On 23.03.2020 11:17, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Currently, we allocate an 8 byte struct microcode_patch to point at a > separately allocated struct microcode_intel. This is wasteful. As indicated elsewhere I'm very much in favor of this, but I think it wants doing in one of the earlier series, and th