Control register access virtualization performance improvement in the virtual-machine architecture

In one embodiment, a command pertaining to one or more portions of a register is received from guest software. Further, a determination is made as to whether the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register based on indicators within a mask field that correspond to the...

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Main Authors NEIGER GILBERT, UHLIG RICHARD, JEYASINGH STALINSELVARAJ, BENNETT STEVE, KAGI ALAIN, COTA-ROBLES ERIK, ANDERSON ANDREW V, KOZUCH MICHAEL A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 24.10.2006
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:In one embodiment, a command pertaining to one or more portions of a register is received from guest software. Further, a determination is made as to whether the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register based on indicators within a mask field that correspond to the requested portions of the register. If the guest software has access to all of the requested portions of the register, the command received from the guest software is executed on the requested portions of the register.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20020124641