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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:49:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB01516.2070402@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111101153019.GH13244@amd.com>

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On 2011-11-01 16:30, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:39:49AM -0400, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> So SVM does not guarantee that an intercept during a task-switch can be
>>> restarted.
>>
>> Not a bug but still a deficit as it makes hardware-assisted task
>> switching practically useless, no?
> 
> Not entirely. For hypervisors that can guarantee that there will be no
> intercept (NPT pre-mapped, no exceptions intercepted) it will still
> work.

Yes, but that only covers the niche of simple static ones (partitioning
hypervisors).

Jan


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-18 16:23 [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled Jan Kiszka
2011-10-18 16:35 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-10-18 17:37   ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-19 14:12     ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-01 11:13     ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-01 13:39       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-01 15:30         ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-01 15:49           ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-11-01 16:15             ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-01 18:22               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-02  9:55                 ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-11-02  9:59                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-02 10:04                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-27 12:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti

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