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Re: [Xen-devel] X86_emulate to be moved into qemu...

To: "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] X86_emulate to be moved into qemu...
From: "Dave Lively" <dave.lively@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 09:31:55 -0400
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Hi --

 Please excuse me jumping in late on this thread.  I'm missing a bit of
context, so maybe I'm misunderstanding something.  But ...

 Since QEMU is single-threaded, won't moving the x86_emulate code into
there be a huge SMP performance bottleneck?  What's the rationale for
doing this?

Thanks,
Dave


On 5/17/06, Petersson, Mats <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
When using x86_emulate.c inside qemu, we'd need to feed in the virtual

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