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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:47:14 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
CC: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/12] kvm/svm: copy only necessary parts of the
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
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> What's the reason behind this?
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> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

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.

	Joerg