linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] KVM: SVM: Use seperate VMCB for L2 guests

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:26:39 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
CC:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] KVM: SVM: Use seperate VMCB for L2 guests

On 07/14/2011 04:12 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Makes sense. I'll probably remove the lazy allocation and initialize
> both VMCBs at vcpu-creation time. The memory foodprint is the same as
> before because the hsave area was also allocated at the beginning.

Related, would we need a pool of n_vmcbs/vmcb02s?

I guess the condition for reusing an n_vmcb would be: same vmcb_gpa and 
at least one clean bit set?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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