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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] target-i386: add KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:31:17 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180209143117.GL13981@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518185725-69559-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 06:15:25AM -0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> 
> Add KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint, guest checks this feature bit
> to determine if they run on dedicated vCPUs, allowing optimizations such 
> as usage of qspinlocks.  
> 
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
[...]
> +    [FEAT_KVM_HINTS] = {
> +        .feat_names = {
> +            "hint-dedicated", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +            NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> +        },
> +        .cpuid_eax = KVM_CPUID_FEATURES, .cpuid_reg = R_EDX,
> +        .tcg_features = TCG_KVM_FEATURES,
> +    },

Do you have a pointer to the KVM patch that adds this bit to
Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt?  I would like to wait until
the KVM CPUID docs are updated before applying the patch to QEMU.

-- 
Eduardo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 14:15 [PATCH v2] target-i386: add KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint Wanpeng Li
2018-02-09 14:31 ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2018-02-09 14:52   ` Wanpeng Li
2018-02-09 14:52     ` [Qemu-devel] " Wanpeng Li
2018-02-28 12:31 ` Wanpeng Li
2018-02-28 12:31   ` [Qemu-devel] " Wanpeng Li
2018-02-28 15:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-28 15:05     ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2018-03-09 14:16 ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-03-10  1:43   ` Wanpeng Li
2018-03-10  1:43     ` [Qemu-devel] " Wanpeng Li
2018-04-10  9:13   ` Wanpeng Li
2018-04-10 11:57     ` Eduardo Habkost
2018-04-10 12:04       ` Paolo Bonzini

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