On 06/16/2010 12:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Ingo, Peter, any feedback on this? > Conceptually, this makes sense to me. However, I have a concern what happens when a task is scheduled on another CPU, while its FPU state is still in registers in the original CPU. That would seem to require expensive IPIs to spill the state in order for the rescheduling to proceed, and this could really damage performance. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
