[PATCH 3/6 v2] KVM: PPC: Book3E: Increase FPU laziness

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Thu Jul 3 22:28:58 EST 2014


On 30.06.14 17:34, Mihai Caraman wrote:
> Increase FPU laziness by calling kvmppc_load_guest_fp() just before
> returning to guest instead of each sched in. Without this improvement
> an interrupt may also claim floting point corrupting guest state.

How do you handle context switching with this patch applied? During most 
of the guest's lifetime we never exit kvmppc_vcpu_run(), so when the 
guest gets switched out all FPU state gets lost?


Alex



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