Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add support for hwrng found on some powernv systems

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 07:58:32 +1000

On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 11:11 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:

> Right, and the difference for the patch in question is really whether
> we handle in in kernel virtual mode or in QEMU, so the bulk of the
> overhead (kicking threads out of  guest context, switching MMU
> context, etc) happens either way.
> 
> So the additional overhead when handling it in QEMU here really boils
> down to the user space roundtrip (plus another random number read
> roundtrip).

Hrm, Michael had a real mode version ... not sure where it went then.

Cheers,
Ben.