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From: Frank Van Der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC] RAS(Part II)--MCA enalbing in XEN
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:50:02 -0700
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I should probably clarify myself, since I may have created one wrong 
impression: I don't object to the parts of the Intel code where the 
hypervisor does more of the initial work (like is also done in the page 
offline code); it can be critical that this work is done quickly, and 
the hypervisor is the only place that has both the information and the 
means to do it.

So, doing some more work there in some cases is probably the best thing 
to do, even though there is natural resistance to adding more code to 
the hypervisor.

The main thing that I don't quite understand the benefits of is the vMCE 
code, which is why I asked if there are examples of where that approach 
would work better.

- Frank