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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add svm cpuid features
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:06:48AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   On 09/14/2010 05:52 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > This patch adds the svm cpuid feature flags to the qemu
> > intialization path. It also adds the svm features available
> > on phenom to its cpu-definition and extends the host cpu
> > type to support all svm features KVM can provide.
> >
> >
> 
> Does phenom really have vmcbclean?  I thought it was a really new feature.

No, but we could emulate it on almost all hardware that has SVM. Its
basically the same as with x2apic.

	Joerg

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