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From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
To: Razvan Cojocaru <rzvncj@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxc: Add xc_domain_hvm_get_mtrr_type() call
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:57:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121220115727.GG80837@ocelot.phlegethon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50D216F7.2050801@gmail.com>

At 21:35 +0200 on 19 Dec (1355952919), Razvan Cojocaru wrote:
> > result can be cached (since you can also get a mem-event on MSR writes,
> > you don't have to pull all this MTRR state out of the giuest except when
> > the MTRRs have been changed).
> 
> Unfortunately, due to the design of components I don't control, my
> application does not have the luxury of waiting for an MSR write event.

Hmm.  In that case I guess you can't cache the MTRR state between
lookups, which may be a performance problem for you.

> (Has my MSR mem_event patch been acknowledged? Or was this already work
> in progress? I had to patch my Xen source code to be able to get MSR
> events...)

I've replied to that separately. 

Cheers,

Tim.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-20 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-17 11:38 [PATCH] libxc: Add xc_domain_hvm_get_mtrr_type() call Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-18 17:04 ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-18 17:24   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 10:14     ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-19 10:42       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 11:28         ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-19 11:49           ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 12:00             ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 14:57             ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 15:00               ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-19 15:10                 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 15:27                 ` Andrew Cooper
2012-12-19 15:54                   ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-19 16:11                     ` Andrew Cooper
2012-12-19 16:15                       ` Ian Campbell
2012-12-19 16:29                         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 17:46                           ` Tim Deegan
2012-12-19 19:35                             ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-20 11:57                               ` Tim Deegan [this message]
2012-12-20 13:40                                 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-19 15:43                 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2012-12-20 11:54               ` Tim Deegan

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