Re: [PATCH 0/8] KVM updates for 2.6.20-rc2

* Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > As SVN has shown it, we can rely on VMX state save/load to become 
> > faster in the future. So we definitely shouldnt design for a 
> > small-scale overhead in first-generation silicon.
> 
> In this case I think the documentation indicates their long term 
> plans.  However, the only real answer is to measure.

yeah. Would be nice to see some hard numbers about how many cycles all 
these context load/save variants take.

        Ingo

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