[PATCH 10/13] kvm/powerpc: Add support for Book3S processors in hypervisor mode

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jun 1 08:34:43 EST 2011


>>> Sure, but that shouldn't happen with HDEC during the odd 50 
>>> instructions that it takes to enter the guest :)
>>
>> It's more like 500 insns, including some ptesync, so lots of cycles 
>> too.
>
> I don't think its actually that bad.

There's a loop of 128 iterations of 3 insns.

I'm not saying it is actually bad, just that that 50 is slightly off ;-)


Segher



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