From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Improvements for task switching Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:38:41 +0100 Message-ID: <873adb3bse.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <49B957BD.7000107@siemens.com> <49BA7926.3010404@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Bernhard Kohl , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:54683 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753103AbZCRAl1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:41:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49BA7926.3010404@siemens.com> (Jan Kiszka's message of "Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:17:58 +0100") Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Kiszka writes: > > At least you could try to apply your findings in an analogous way to the > 16-bit case. Note in the change log that there is no test case yet and > let us wait for someone else to come around and stress it (which > probably means that we had no user for that use case so far anyway). AFAIK the standard test case for really obscure x86 features like this is OS/2. It would be good to check with that, especially older versions. -Andi