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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
Cc: <agraf@suse.de>, <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [v1][KVM][PATCH 1/1] kvm:ppc:booehv: direct ISI exception to Guest
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:40:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367970043.3398.39@snotra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367924791-24394-1-git-send-email-tiejun.chen@windriver.com> (from tiejun.chen@windriver.com on Tue May  7 06:06:30 2013)

On 05/07/2013 06:06:30 AM, Tiejun Chen wrote:
> We also can direct ISI exception to Guest like DSI.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/booke_emulate.c |    3 +++
>  arch/powerpc/kvm/e500mc.c        |    3 ++-
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Are you seeing a real performance improvement from this?  This will  
interfere somewhat with using the VF bit, if we were to ever do so,  
since VF only affects data accesses (and so the guest would see an ISI  
storm rather than a machine check if it tries to execute from such an  
address).

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-07 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-07 11:06 [v1][KVM][PATCH 1/1] kvm:ppc:booehv: direct ISI exception to Guest Tiejun Chen
2013-05-07 23:40 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2013-05-08  1:53   ` tiejun.chen
2013-05-08  9:20     ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2013-05-08  9:28       ` tiejun.chen
2013-05-09 10:23         ` [v1][PATCH " tiejun.chen
2013-05-09 11:34           ` [v1][KVM][PATCH " Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2013-05-09 11:40             ` tiejun.chen
2013-05-09 12:36               ` Caraman Mihai Claudiu-B02008
2013-05-10 17:57                 ` Alexander Graf
2013-05-10 19:22                   ` Scott Wood
2013-05-10 19:39                     ` Alexander Graf
2013-05-13  2:04                       ` tiejun.chen
2013-05-08 19:09     ` Scott Wood

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