Re: [PATCH 05/12] kvm/svm: copy only necessary parts of thecontrol area on vmrun/vmexit

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Jul 29 2009 - 09:47:37 EST


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:30:01PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> >
>
> What's the reason behind this?
>
> Acked-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>

Reason is to not copy the reserved fields of the control area. These
fields sum up to size of 899 bytes which are unnecessarily copied.

Joerg


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/