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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Suravee Suthikulpanit <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
	joro@8bytes.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, gleb@kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	wei@redhat.com, sherry.hurwitz@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PART1 RFC 0/9] KVM: x86: Introduce SVM AVIC support
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:05:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BE3B02.20607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BE3897.5060507@amd.com>



On 12/02/2016 20:55, Suravee Suthikulpanit wrote:
>> Is it just this, or is there anything else?
> 
> For VM Migration, I meant the process of taking a snapshot of the VM and
> later on loading it back to resume where it left off, and not necessary
> to a different type of system. This would require saving off the VAPIC
> backing page of each vCPU along with the rest of per-VM AVIC data
> structures. IIUC, this might require changes in the QEmu as well.

It comes for free if you use regs for the backing page as I mentioned.
QEMU then manipulates the registers as usual throgh
KVM_GET_LAPIC/KVM_SET_LAPIC.  Same for non-AVIC <-> AVIC migration.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-12 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-12 13:59 [PART1 RFC 0/9] KVM: x86: Introduce SVM AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 1/9] KVM: x86: Misc LAPIC changes to exposes helper functions Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 2/9] svm: Introduce new AVIC VMCB registers Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 3/9] svm: clean up V_TPR, V_IRQ, V_INTR_PRIO, and V_INTR_MASKING Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 4/9] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 14:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-12 15:46     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 5/9] svm: Add VMEXIT handlers for AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 15:38   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-15 19:22     ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-16  6:29     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-16 12:15       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-16 14:13         ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-16 16:56           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-16 18:06             ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-16 18:06               ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-18  2:25               ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-18 14:18                 ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-18 14:51                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-18 15:43                     ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-18 15:53                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-18 16:27                         ` Radim Krčmář
2016-02-18 17:18                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-19 11:39                             ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-19 11:44                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-19 11:59                                 ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-03-03 10:42                             ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-03-03 10:50                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-19 11:32                   ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 6/9] svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 14:16   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-12 15:54     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 17:14       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-12 18:21         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 18:30           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-12 18:56             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 19:33               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-02-16  7:50                 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-02-16  8:39                   ` [PATCH] x86/msr: Document msr-index.h rule for addition Borislav Petkov
2016-02-12 15:55   ` [PART1 RFC 6/9] svm: Add interrupt injection via AVIC Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 16:21     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 18:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 19:36         ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-19 11:57         ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 7/9] svm: Do not expose x2APIC when enable AVIC Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 8/9] svm: Do not intercept CR8 " Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 15:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 13:59 ` [PART1 RFC 9/9] svm: Manage vcpu load/unload " Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 15:46   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 18:13 ` [PART1 RFC 0/9] KVM: x86: Introduce SVM AVIC support Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-12 19:55   ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2016-02-12 20:05     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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