Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> This is a request for testing of an experimental kvm feature that 
>> dramatically accelerates some Windows releases (when running with the 
>> ACPI HAL, and especially with guest SMP).  The feature detects 
>> accesses by the guest to the Task Priority Register (TPR) and patches 
>> them at runtime to a kvm-friendly code snipped that is provided by 
>> the BIOS.
>>
>> The upshot of all that is that 
>> http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Windows_ACPI_Workaround is no longer 
>> required, and Windows SMP no longer runs like a dog; it's quite 
>> snappy from my very limited testing.
>>
>> Please download the test release from 
>> http://people.qumranet.com/avi/tpr-opt-1.tar.gz and give it a spin.  
>> Once it has received some exposure, I'll merge it into mainline.
>>
>> Credit for the original idea is due to Ben Serebrin.
>>
>>   
>
> Sweet!
>
> I needed the following patch to compile.  Will let you know how 
> testing goes.
>

I already applied that, plus another minor fix, so I recommend 
re-downloading.  Should have given it a new name.


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