Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode

[Avi Kivity]

On 11/10/2009 08:02 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/09/2009 09:27 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>    
> > Also, I think that if we start adding emulation, a global and per-task
> > counter would immensely help to know what processes make intensive use
> > of emulation.
> >
> >      
> Agreed.
>
> My first question would be if the interpreter in KVM can be reused in
> any way.
>
>    

In theory yes.  There would need to be a bit of work to disassociate it 
from kvm, but nothing too difficult.

Note that the kvm x86 emulator is more general than need be (emulates 
real mode code and cpl 0 instructions) and less general than needed 
(many instructions are not emulated, for example nopl).

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