Re: [PATCH] KVM: Enable "fast string operations" in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE

2011-10-04 Thread Avi Kivity
On 09/23/2011 05:56 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:03:02PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Recent (3.0+) Linux guests check for the fast string bit in > MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE before enabling rep/movs based memcpy and > related on fam 6/model 13+ processors. > > Enable the bit

Re: [PATCH] KVM: Enable "fast string operations" in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE

2011-09-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:03:02PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Recent (3.0+) Linux guests check for the fast string bit in > MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE before enabling rep/movs based memcpy and > related on fam 6/model 13+ processors. > > Enable the bit by default, as required by the specification. > >

[PATCH] KVM: Enable "fast string operations" in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE

2011-09-22 Thread Avi Kivity
Recent (3.0+) Linux guests check for the fast string bit in MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE before enabling rep/movs based memcpy and related on fam 6/model 13+ processors. Enable the bit by default, as required by the specification. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity --- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |2 ++ 1 files chan