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Re: [Xen-devel] SSE Instruction emulation in Xen

To: sanjay kushwaha <sanjay.kushwaha@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] SSE Instruction emulation in Xen
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:17:18 +0000
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We emulate a few SSE instructions, like MOVQ. Just enough for emulation of
things like optimised memcpy() and memset() when applied to emulated device
mmio areas.

We don't plan to fully emulate all SSE instructions. Xen doesn't really need
it and it would greatly increase the size and complexity of the emulator. If
there is a genuine good reason, however, I might reconsider.

 -- Keir

On 03/02/2010 18:50, "sanjay kushwaha" <sanjay.kushwaha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am using Xen-3.4.2rc1 and I notice that it doesnt have support for emulating
> IA-32 SSE instructions.
> 
> Can someone please tell me if SSE instruction emulation is planned in a future
> version or is already supported in some version of Xen?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sanjay



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