[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Calculate correct instruction length fordata-fault VM exits on VT-x systems
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 16:48 +0100, Ian Pratt wrote: > Having a full emulator available certainly enables lots of cool tricks > (e.g. the taint tracking example in the paper). You wouldn't want to use > it for all MMIO operations (they're often singletons), but for handling > batches is would be good. It's certainly a good way of handling the 16b > issue on Intel. Why wouldn't you do it on each mmio operation that is not implemented in the hypervisor? As soon as you have to do the upcall the cost of going to qemu-dm, or even a miniguest partition, dwarfs the cost of invoking the emulator. Leendert _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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