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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: x86: emulate monitor and mwait instructions as
 nop
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:17:48 +0200
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Il 02/06/2014 21:25, Gabriel L. Somlo ha scritto:
> Would it make sense to make this a module parameter,
> (e.g., "int emulate_mwait") ?
>
> Default would be 0 (no emulation). 1 would mean "emulate as nop", and
> if anyone ever figures out how to do proper page-locking based
> emulation we could use 2 to enable that, etc. ?
>
> Not sure we'd want qemu to enable/disable it automatically, though...
>
> What do you all think ?

I think it's fine as it is now. :)

Paolo