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Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:05:17 +1100
From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Drop obsolete nographic timer
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:31:18PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> We flush coalesced MMIO in the device models now, and VNC - for which
> this was once introduced - is also fine without it as it has its own
> refresh timer.

These don't seem to have gone in yet, any word on their progress?  KVM
exits are *really* expensive on powerpc, so this represents a
significant performance problem for us.  I'm hoping this can make the
freeze.

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