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Re: [Xen-devel] how can I find code of hypercall?

To: "Jayaraman, Bhaskar" <Bhaskar.Jayaraman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] how can I find code of hypercall?
From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:16:58 +0100
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"Jayaraman, Bhaskar" <Bhaskar.Jayaraman@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm sorry I wasn't aware of this, and I assumed that an instruction prefetch 
> operation would always fetch fixed amount of bytes. Not sure now how prefetch 
> works in Intel.
> Thank you,
> Bhaskar.

Magically or near enough. There is a reason why basically any modern
cpu has fixed length.

MfG
        Goswin

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