From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Graf Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] kvm/svm: copy only necessary parts of the control area on vmrun/vmexit Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:48:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4A705321.6070502@suse.de> References: <1248872192-30881-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <1248872192-30881-6-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <4A704ED9.2000604@suse.de> <20090729134714.GJ18313@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Avi Kivity , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Joerg Roedel Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090729134714.GJ18313@amd.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Joerg Roedel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> Joerg Roedel wrote: >> >>> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel >>> >>> >> What's the reason behind this? >> >> Acked-by: Alexander Graf >> > > Reason is to not copy the reserved fields of the control area. These > fields sum up to size of 899 bytes which are unnecessarily copied. > Fair enough :-)