[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 12/12] xen/mtrr: Add mtrr_if support for Xen mtrr

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>]

 On 09/28/2010 10:56 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 10:13 AM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Yes, we could just mask out the MTRR CPU feature and rely entirely on PAT.
>>
>> The alternative would be to use the wrmsr hooks to emulate the Intel
>> MTRR registers by mapping them to hypercalls, but that seems needlessly
>> complex.
>>
> Indeed.  Relying on pure PAT is the Right Thing[TM].

Is there a plan to formally deprecate /proc/mtrr and the kernel
infrastructure behind it?

    J

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