Re: [PATCH 13/15] Add NMI injection support to SVM.

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On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 04:28:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>> There may not be a next entry if the guest is in a tight loop.  Given 
>>>  NMIs are used for watchdogs, that's not good.
>>>
>>>     
>> We don't exit a guest after kvm time slice ends?
>>   
>
> There are no time slices any more.  If there's only once thread for a  
> vcpu, you might have no exits at all with a tickless kernel.
>
Well, KVM may request some kind of even (timer) that will cause exit to
VCPU. This looks hacky though.

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			Gleb.
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