From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Host latency peaks due to kvm-intel Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:52:05 +0300 Message-ID: <4A6B1C15.6090608@redhat.com> References: <4A68A6E5.6010808@siemens.com> <4A68BD5D.1070302@gmail.com> <4A6981B0.3000008@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gregory Haskins , kvm-devel , RT , "Yang, Sheng" To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A6981B0.3000008@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On 07/24/2009 12:41 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Jan (who is now patching his guest to avoid wbinvd where possible) > > Is there ever a case where it is required? What about under a hypervisor (i.e. check the hypervisor enabled bit). -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.