On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:02 +0000 Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On 10/03/17 15:50, Vlad Ioan Topan wrote: > > Adds monitor support for descriptor access events (reads & writes of > > IDTR/GDTR/LDTR/TR) for the x86 architecture (VMX and SVM). > > > > Signed-off-by: Vlad Ioan Topan <ito...@bitdefender.com> > > How much extra overhead does this typically give? (I am curious, more > than anything else) Without a monitor attached, none at all; with a monitor attached and with exits activated, there are probably a few hundred exits during the OS startup process; during normal OS runtime there should be no descriptor register access. The other suggestions will be incorporated by my colleagues who will take over the patch(es). Thank you, -- Vlad-Ioan TOPAN Linux Kernel Development Lead Bitdefender _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
