From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "ehabkost@redhat.com" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Sergio Lopez <slp@redhat.com>,
"maran.wilson@oracle.com" <maran.wilson@oracle.com>,
"Montes, Julio" <julio.montes@intel.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"kraxel@redhat.com" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"rth@twiddle.net" <rth@twiddle.net>,
"sgarzare@redhat.com" <sgarzare@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce the microvm machine type
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:33:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190725132521-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d318abf-4afa-a1dc-a4e8-3a2d0a6de297@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 05:35:01PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 25/07/19 16:46, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Actually, I think I have a better idea.
> > At the moment we just get an exit on these reads and return all-ones.
> > Yes, in theory there could be a UR bit set in a bunch of
> > registers but in practice no one cares about these,
> > and I don't think we implement them.
> > So how about mapping a single page, read-only, and filling it
> > with all-ones?
>
> Yes, that's nice indeed. :) But it does have some cost, in terms of
> either number of VMAs or QEMU RSS since the MMCONFIG area is large.
>
> What breaks if we return all zeroes? Zero is not a valid vendor ID.
>
> Paolo
It isn't but that's not what baremetal does. So there's some risk
there ...
Why is all zeroes better? We still need to map it, right?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 17:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-02 12:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/4] hw/virtio: Factorize virtio-mmio headers Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 9:46 ` Liam Merwick
2019-07-25 9:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:03 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 10:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] hw/i386: Add an Intel MPTable generator Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 3/4] hw/i386: Factorize PVH related functions Sergio Lopez
2019-07-23 8:39 ` Liam Merwick
2019-07-02 12:11 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] hw/i386: Introduce the microvm machine type Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 13:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-07-25 10:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-02 15:01 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] " no-reply
2019-07-02 15:23 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-02 17:34 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-02 18:04 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-02 22:04 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 9:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:05 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 10:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:52 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 10:42 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 11:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 12:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-25 12:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 13:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-25 13:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 13:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:04 ` Peter Maydell
2019-07-25 14:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:35 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:42 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 14:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 17:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 12:46 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-07-25 15:49 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 13:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-02 15:30 ` no-reply
2019-07-03 9:58 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-18 15:21 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-19 10:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-19 13:48 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-19 15:09 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-19 15:42 ` Montes, Julio
2019-07-23 8:43 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-23 9:47 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2019-07-23 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-24 11:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 9:35 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-07-25 10:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 10:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 14:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 15:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-25 17:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2019-07-25 20:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 7:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-07-26 11:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 11:30 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-07-24 15:23 ` Stefano Garzarella
2019-08-29 9:02 ` Jing Liu
2019-08-29 15:46 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-08-30 4:53 ` Jing Liu
2019-08-30 14:27 ` Sergio Lopez
2019-09-02 5:43 ` Jing Liu
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