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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: Enable "fast string operations" in
 MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:56:50 -0300
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:03:02PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Recent (3.0+) Linux guests check for the fast string bit in
> MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE before enabling rep/movs based memcpy and
> related on fam 6/model 13+ processors.
> 
> Enable the bit by default, as required by the specification.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Belongs to userspace.