From: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
"avi@redhat.com" <avi@redhat.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
Daniel Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>, Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux.
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:33:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1222882431.9381.23.camel@alok-dev1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48E3B19D.6060905@zytor.com>
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:21 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Alok Kataria wrote:
> >
> > (This proposal may be adopted by other guest OSes. However, that is not
> > a requirement because a hypervisor can expose a different CPUID
> > interface depending on the guest OS type that is specified by the VM
> > configuration.)
> >
>
> Excuse me, but that is blatantly idiotic. Expecting the user having to
> configure a VM to match the target OS is *exactly* as stupid as
> expecting the user to reconfigure the BIOS. It's totally the wrong
> thing to do.
Hi Peter,
Its not a user who has to do anything special here.
There are *intelligent* VM developers out there who can export a
different CPUid interface depending on the guest OS type. And this is
what most of the hypervisors do (not necessarily for CPUID, but for
other things right now).
Alok.
>
> -hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-01 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-01 17:14 [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 17:14 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 17:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 17:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 17:33 ` Alok Kataria [this message]
2008-10-01 17:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 17:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 21:05 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 21:05 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 1:11 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-02 1:11 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-02 1:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 1:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-03 22:33 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-03 22:33 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-03 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-04 0:27 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-04 0:27 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-04 0:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 22:30 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-07 22:30 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-07 22:30 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-07 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-08 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:45 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-07 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-07 23:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-07 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-07 23:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-08 0:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-08 0:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-04 0:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-04 8:53 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-04 8:53 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-04 0:27 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-03 23:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-03 22:33 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-02 1:11 ` Nakajima, Jun
2008-10-01 18:06 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 17:33 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 17:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 20:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 20:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 20:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 21:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 20:08 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 19:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 19:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 20:38 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-01 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 22:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 20:38 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-01 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-01 18:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 21:01 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 21:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:15 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-01 21:15 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-01 21:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:23 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 21:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:23 ` Alok Kataria
2008-10-01 21:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 21:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 21:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 21:43 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-01 21:43 ` Chris Wright
2008-10-02 11:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-02 11:29 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-01 23:47 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-02 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 0:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 0:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 1:11 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-02 1:11 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-02 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 0:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-02 0:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-02 0:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-01 23:47 ` Zachary Amsden
2008-10-01 21:01 ` Alok Kataria
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2008-10-01 17:14 Alok Kataria
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