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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"Serebrin,
	Benjamin (Calendar)" <Benjamin.Serebrin@exchange.amd.com>,
	Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	"Wahlig, Elsie" <elsie.wahlig@amd.com>,
	"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Cross vendor migration ideas
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:59:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49215C99.8080800@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081117110934.GH6703@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> But at least for Linux, if we notify the 
>> guest telling it to retune (which can include the vsyscall path) we can 
>> avoid the cost entirely.
>>     
>
> Hmm, we discussed something like this some time ago anyways (add
> a way to rescan CPUID features) because there are microcode updates
> around that change some (relatively obscure) CPUID features.
>
> But doing it fully general would be likely quite intrusive. You 
> would need to rewrite the CPU initialization code and some other
> code in a callback like matter like the PCI code does for hotplug.
>
>   

The primary consumer would be compat mode syscall/sysenter.  Page copy 
would be a secondary consumer.  All the rest are likely in the noise.

Hmm, maybe also the raid5+ algorithms.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 11:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 15:39 Cross vendor migration ideas Alexander Graf
2008-11-12 15:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-12 15:50   ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-12 15:59     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-13  0:02     ` Skywing
2008-11-13  1:48       ` Serebrin, Benjamin (Calendar)
2008-11-15 13:03         ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-15 16:39           ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-15 17:37             ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-16 15:36               ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-17 11:09                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-17 11:59                   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-11-15 17:38             ` Glauber Costa
2008-11-16 14:58               ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-13 10:16     ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 20:06   ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-12 20:52     ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-13 10:20   ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-12 16:52 ` Amit Shah
2008-11-12 17:19   ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-13  4:35     ` Amit Shah
2008-11-13 13:38       ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-14 13:07         ` Amit Shah
2008-11-14 23:43           ` Nitin A Kamble
2008-11-17 10:07             ` Amit Shah
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-16  0:23 Skywing

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