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

From: Alexander Graf
Date: Wed Jul 29 2009 - 09:48:26 EST


Joerg Roedel wrote:
> 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.
>

Fair enough :-)

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