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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: question on #UD emulation
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:04:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47653E98.6040403@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02858E8C-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>

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Dong, Eddie wrote:
> A little bit suspicion for the usage model too :(
> The CPUID feature list can't be changed dynamically, so I doutb
> if a real user will give up performance at beginning when he/she
> starts the guest for "maybe" future migration cross host platform.
>
> A VT or SVM enabled machine usually has many features 
> which doesn't exist in the common feature list for both Intel & AMD,
> such as MMX/SSE2/SSE3. So the performance penalty could be big.
>   

mmx/sse2/sse3 are actually common across intel/amd; the performance
difference should be minor (well, depending on the workload).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-16 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-16 10:01 question on #UD emulation Dong, Eddie
     [not found] ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02858E27-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 11:32   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <47650CD8.5060401-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 12:33       ` Joerg Roedel
     [not found]         ` <20071216123318.GB31298-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 12:49           ` Dor Laor
     [not found]             ` <47651EDB.2010601-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 14:42               ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]                 ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02858E8C-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 15:04                   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-12-16 14:44       ` Dong, Eddie
     [not found]         ` <10EA09EFD8728347A513008B6B0DA77A02858E8E-wq7ZOvIWXbNpB2pF5aRoyrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2007-12-16 15:07           ` Avi Kivity

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