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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] KVM: x86 emulator: SSE support
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:11:51 +0300
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On 06/28/2011 09:49 AM, Cyclonus J wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >  Add support for marking an instruction as SSE, switching registers used
> >  to the SSE register file.
>
> Avi,
>
> So this change will only support XMM register as its destination not
> memory, right? I am seeing the mmio size in qemu is still 8 bytes.
>

Memory is supported as well.

> Do we need to support memory destination and update qemu as well?
>


kvm breaks up 16 byte writes into two 8-byte writes, so that the 
interface between kvm and userspace is not affected.

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