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Message-ID: <472716C1.1090102@siemens.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:34:25 +0100
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
CC: kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@...dl.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] 2.6.23.1-rt4 and kvm 48
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Interesting result - you've read about the wbinvd issues? Is there no
>> wbinvd in the bios shipped with older kvm? Which VM extension did you
>> test, both Intel and AMD? I would bet that your X issues are due to the
>> same effect. X startup/shutdown involves a lot of wbinvd calls on my
>> test boxes.
>>
>>
>
> kvm.git now traps invd and wbinvd on amd, so there shouldn't be any
> issues there.
So kvm can then simply ignore the instructions, or what does it do about
them? I recall some replies in the related thread that some more work
may be required.
> I hope that Intel will add similar traps in future
> iterations of VT.
Yep.
Jan
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