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From: "Anthony Harivel" <aharivel@redhat.com>
To: "Xiaoyao Li" <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <rjarry@redhat.com>, "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Christophe Fontaine" <cfontain@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] KVM: x86: Give host userspace control for MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT and MSR_PKG_POWER_STATUS
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:59:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CPWW6ZULVEMY.1HWFUQFW6EMSG@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d635edea-e181-3498-ceff-72434ab856cf@intel.com>

On Thu Jan 19, 2023 at 6:57 AM CET, Xiaoyao Li wrote:

> Set aside how user space VMM emulate these 2 MSRs correctly, it can 
> request the MSR READ to exit to user space via KVM_X86_SET_MSR_FILTER. 
> So user space VMM can just enable the read filter of these 2 MSRs and 
> provide the emulation itself.

Thanks for your feedback. I totally miss out on this possibility. On
Qemu, only one msr is using it (MSR_CORE_THREAD_COUNT). I did a test
yesterday in Qemu adding a filter with kvm_filter_msr() and a callback
to setup the msr with a dummy value and it's perfectly working.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-20  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-18 14:21 [RFC] KVM: x86: Give host userspace control for MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT and MSR_PKG_POWER_STATUS Anthony Harivel
2023-01-19  5:57 ` Xiaoyao Li
2023-01-20  8:59   ` Anthony Harivel [this message]
2023-01-19 23:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-01-20 16:47   ` Anthony Harivel
2023-01-20 16:57     ` Paolo Bonzini
2023-01-23 12:43       ` Anthony Harivel

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