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From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on
 Hyper-V
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 17:06:09 +0100
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        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
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2018-03-16 15:22+0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov:
> Enlightened VMCS is just a structure in memory, the main benefit
> besides avoiding somewhat slower VMREAD/VMWRITE is using clean field
> mask: we tell the underlying hypervisor which fields were modified
> since VMEXIT so there's no need to inspect them all.
> 
> Tight CPUID loop test shows significant speedup:
> Before: 18890 cycles
> After: 8304 cycles
> 
> Static key is being used to avoid performance penalty for non-Hyper-V
> deployments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
> ---

Looks good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>