linux-kernel - Re: Ping: Re: [PATCH] Revert "kvm: x86: emulate monitor and mwait instructions as nop"

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Message-ID: <53BC0C2B.4060604@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jul 2014 17:20:11 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	"Gabriel L. Somlo" <gsomlo@...il.com>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	nadav.amit@...il.com, joro@...tes.org, agraf@...e.de
Subject: Re: Ping: Re: [PATCH] Revert "kvm: x86: emulate monitor and mwait
 instructions as nop"

Il 08/07/2014 17:15, Gabriel L. Somlo ha scritto:
> Any decision on this ? If we're going to revert monitor/mwait as nop,
> it's hopefully not too late to avoid having it show up in an official
> (3.16 ?) kernel release...

I don't really see a reason to revert it.

Paolo
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