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From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:30:19 +0100
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On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:39:49AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > So SVM does not guarantee that an intercept during a task-switch can be
> > restarted.
> 
> Not a bug but still a deficit as it makes hardware-assisted task
> switching practically useless, no?

Not entirely. For hypervisors that can guarantee that there will be no
intercept (NPT pre-mapped, no exceptions intercepted) it will still
work.


	Joerg

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