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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v1 3/3] kernel/configs: don't include PCI_QUIRKS in KVM guest configs
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:59:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b78f8715bbaec8fc728a85d614b00688@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1smmpw5.fsf@linaro.org>

On 2020-08-04 15:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> On 2020-08-04 13:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> The VIRTIO_PCI support is an idealised PCI bus, we don't need a bunch
>>> of bloat for real world hardware for a VirtIO guest.
>> 
>> Who says this guest will only have virtio devices?
> 
> This is true - although what is the point of kvm_guest.config? We
> certainly turn on a whole bunch of virt optimised pathways with 
> PARAVIRT
> and HYPERVISOR_GUEST along with the rest of VirtIO.

Most of which actually qualifies as bloat itself as far as KVM/arm64
is concerned...

          M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...
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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: christoffer.dall@arm.com, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v1 3/3] kernel/configs: don't include PCI_QUIRKS in KVM guest configs
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:59:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b78f8715bbaec8fc728a85d614b00688@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1smmpw5.fsf@linaro.org>

On 2020-08-04 15:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> On 2020-08-04 13:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> The VIRTIO_PCI support is an idealised PCI bus, we don't need a bunch
>>> of bloat for real world hardware for a VirtIO guest.
>> 
>> Who says this guest will only have virtio devices?
> 
> This is true - although what is the point of kvm_guest.config? We
> certainly turn on a whole bunch of virt optimised pathways with 
> PARAVIRT
> and HYPERVISOR_GUEST along with the rest of VirtIO.

Most of which actually qualifies as bloat itself as far as KVM/arm64
is concerned...

          M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

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From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
	christoffer.dall@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH  v1 3/3] kernel/configs: don't include PCI_QUIRKS in KVM guest configs
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 15:59:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b78f8715bbaec8fc728a85d614b00688@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1smmpw5.fsf@linaro.org>

On 2020-08-04 15:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> On 2020-08-04 13:44, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>> The VIRTIO_PCI support is an idealised PCI bus, we don't need a bunch
>>> of bloat for real world hardware for a VirtIO guest.
>> 
>> Who says this guest will only have virtio devices?
> 
> This is true - although what is the point of kvm_guest.config? We
> certainly turn on a whole bunch of virt optimised pathways with 
> PARAVIRT
> and HYPERVISOR_GUEST along with the rest of VirtIO.

Most of which actually qualifies as bloat itself as far as KVM/arm64
is concerned...

          M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-04 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-04 12:44 [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] put arm64 kvm_config on a diet Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44 ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44 ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] arm64: allow de-selection of ThunderX PCI controllers Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-17 17:11   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-08-17 17:11     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-08-17 17:11     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-08-04 12:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] arm64: gate the whole of pci-xgene on CONFIG_PCI_XGENE Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] kernel/configs: don't include PCI_QUIRKS in KVM guest configs Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 12:44   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 13:46   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 13:46     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 13:46     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 14:44     ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 14:44       ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 14:44       ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 14:59       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2020-08-04 14:59         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 14:59         ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 15:40         ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 15:40           ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 15:40           ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 17:16           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 17:16             ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 17:16             ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-04 13:18 ` [RFC PATCH v1 0/3] put arm64 kvm_config on a diet Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-04 13:18   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-04 13:18   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-08-04 14:47   ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 14:47     ` Alex Bennée
2020-08-04 14:47     ` Alex Bennée

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