From: Leendert van Doorn <leendert@watson.ibm.com>
To: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@amd.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Khoa Huynh <khoa@us.ibm.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Calculate correct instruction length fordata-fault VM exits on VT-x systems
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:19:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146352784.2528.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A95E2296287EAD4EB592B5DEEFCE0E9D4BA4E7@liverpoolst.ad.cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 16:48 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> Having a full emulator available certainly enables lots of cool tricks
> (e.g. the taint tracking example in the paper). You wouldn't want to use
> it for all MMIO operations (they're often singletons), but for handling
> batches is would be good. It's certainly a good way of handling the 16b
> issue on Intel.
Why wouldn't you do it on each mmio operation that is not implemented in
the hypervisor? As soon as you have to do the upcall the cost of going
to qemu-dm, or even a miniguest partition, dwarfs the cost of invoking
the emulator.
Leendert
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2006-04-29 15:48 [PATCH] Calculate correct instruction length fordata-fault VM exits on VT-x systems Ian Pratt
2006-04-29 23:19 ` Leendert van Doorn [this message]
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