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From: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:12:18 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180212141218.GO13981@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518319786-1466-2-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com>

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:29:44AM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
[...]
> +KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED                ||     0 || guest checks this feature bit
> +                                   ||       || to determine if they run on dedicated
> +                                   ||       || vCPUs, allowing optimizations

What "dedicated vCPUs" mean, exactly?  Can we document this more
explicitly?

-- 
Eduardo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-12 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11  3:29 [PATCH v3 0/3] KVM: Introduce dedicated vCPUs hint KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED Wanpeng Li
2018-02-11  3:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] " Wanpeng Li
2018-02-12  9:38   ` Andrew Jones
2018-02-12 14:12   ` Eduardo Habkost [this message]
2018-02-13  1:09     ` Wanpeng Li
2018-02-11  3:29 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: X86: Choose qspinlock when dedicated vCPUs available Wanpeng Li
2018-02-11  3:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: X86: Don't use PV TLB flush with dedicated vCPUs and steal time disabled Wanpeng Li

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