[Xen-devel] RE: [Patch] [HVM] Limit MTRR virtualization for VMX guests to 8 registers

["Kamble, Nitin A" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keir, 
   You are right. The problem I was trying to fix was observed on RHEL5.3 Xen, 
and I don't see that issue with the xen-unstable tree.

Thanks & Regards,
Nitin
Linux Open Source Technology Center, Intel Corporation
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:05 AM
>To: Kamble, Nitin A; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Patch] [HVM] Limit MTRR virtualization for VMX guests to 8
>registers
>
>On 16/04/2009 23:32, "Nitin A Kamble" <nitin.a.kamble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Keir,
>>   Bellow is the patch for xen-unstable tree which limits MTRR
>virtualization
>> for VMX guests to 8 registers. Please comment/Apply.
>
>mtrr_state.mtrr_cap isn't directly plumbed to guests. Guests get their own
>hardcoded virtualised value for mtrr_cap, set up in arch/x86/hvm/mtrr.c.
>The
>physical mtrr_state.mtrr_cap is only used for interpreting physical MTRR
>info as part of PAT/MTRR virtualisation. So all looks correct to me as is.
>
> -- Keir
>


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