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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Joel Schopp" <joel.schopp@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: SVM: Sync g_pat with guest-written PAT value
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 13:56:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55363B04.20108@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5536354F.5000503@redhat.com>

On 2015-04-21 13:32, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Basically it's an optimization.  The guest can set the UC memory type on
> PCI BARs that are actually backed by RAM in QEMU, and then accesses to
> these BARs will be unnecessarily slow.  It would be particularly bad if,
> for example, access to ivshmem were slowed down because the guest PAT
> says the memory is uncacheable.

ivshmem is pv anyway - why shouldn't the guest driver take this room for
optimization into account and ask for a cached mapping?

Is that that only use case?

Jan

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Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-13  5:16 KVM: How does is PAT emulation supposed to work? Jan Kiszka
2015-04-13  6:58 ` [RFC][PATCH] KVM: SVM: Sync g_pat with guest-written PAT value Jan Kiszka
2015-04-17 16:59   ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 16:14   ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 17:16     ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 17:21       ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-20 17:33         ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 17:37           ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-20 17:45             ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-20 18:33               ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 18:41                 ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-21 12:10                   ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-21 12:11                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-20 17:22       ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-20 17:25     ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Kiszka
2015-04-20 17:35       ` Radim Krčmář
2015-04-21 11:09       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-21 11:25         ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-21 11:32           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-21 11:56             ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2015-04-21 12:12               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-21 12:21         ` Radim Krčmář
2015-05-24 15:28           ` Jan Kiszka
2016-02-09 19:25             ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-17 16:43 ` KVM: How does is PAT emulation supposed to work? Radim Krčmář
2015-04-17 17:12   ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-17 20:28     ` Radim Krčmář

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