On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:18 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SGDT would be easy to use, and it is logical that it is faster since it reads an internal register. SIDT does too but unlike the GDT has a secondary limit (it can never be larger than 4096 bytes) and so all limits in the range 4095-65535 are exactly equivalent. > Using the IDT limit would have been a great ideal if Intel hadn't decided to clobber it on every VM exit. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html