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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>,
	Ricardo Martins <ricardo.martins.br@gmail.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: KVM Processor cache size
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:41:35 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C57AC0F.3070909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C575776.30106@codemonkey.ws>

  On 08/03/2010 02:40 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Yes, but virtualization is not supposed to expose the underlying 
> hardware.  The vendor_id bit is a harder problem that I'm willing to 
> ignore in this discussion.  I understand why we have to do this today.

Today and forever... unless one of the processor vendors starts 
supporting the other's fast system call instructions on all modes.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 11:45 KVM Processor cache size Ricardo Martins
2010-08-02 12:51 ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 13:08   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 22:22     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-02 22:35       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:38         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  5:38           ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-03  5:33       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 22:25     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-02 22:54       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:40         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  5:41           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-08-02 13:49   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-08-02 18:38     ` Ricardo Martins
2010-08-02 22:24       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 22:15     ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 22:23     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-02 22:42       ` Andre Przywara
2010-08-02 23:36         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-08-03  6:25           ` Dor Laor

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