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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel
	<kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>,
	qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 12:25:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4789E70E.7040802@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080111212655.GA28753@dmt>

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> The PIIX4 ACPI controller prior to revision 0x3 contains a bug where
> reading of the timer port is unreliable, so the kernel reads it three
> times for consistency check.
>
> QEMU does not suffer from that problem :)
>
> The datasheet for PIIX4, PIIX4E, and PIIX4M is the same. I failed to
> find any indication that the revision increase could affect anything
> other than the PMTimer port read.
>
> This reduces idle guest CPU consumption from 14% to 8% on 4-way KVM
> guest.
>
>   

Applied (to kvm's qemu), thanks.

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


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-13 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-11 21:26 [PATCH] report revision 3 of the ACPI/SMBus PIIX4 controller Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-13 10:25 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-01-13 11:19 ` Anders
     [not found]   ` <87ve5yynuv.fsf-MhEMtRviUwpApvB0Y80ENH9LOBIZ5rWg@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-13 14:22     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-13 15:49       ` Anders
     [not found]         ` <878x2tzpx4.fsf-MhEMtRviUwpApvB0Y80ENH9LOBIZ5rWg@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-14 13:24           ` Marcelo Tosatti

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