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authorDongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>2013-01-25 10:19:55 +0100
committerDongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com>2013-01-25 10:19:55 +0100
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nested vmx: enable VMCS shadowing feature
The current logic for handling the non-root VMREAD/VMWRITE is by VM-Exit and emulate, which may bring certain overhead. On new Intel platform, it introduces a new feature called VMCS shadowing, where non-root VMREAD/VMWRITE will not trigger VM-Exit, and the hardware will read/write the virtual VMCS instead. This is proved to have performance improvement with the feature. Signed-off-by: Dongxiao Xu <dongxiao.xu@intel.com> Acked-by: Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com> Acked-by Eddie Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com> Committed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
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