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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Host latency peaks due to kvm-intel
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:16:27 -0700
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Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 07/24/2009 12:41 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> I vaguely recall that someone promised to add a feature reporting
>>> facility for all those nice things, modern VM-extensions may or may not
>>> support (something like or even an extension of /proc/cpuinfo). What is
>>> the state of this plan? Would be specifically interesting for Intel CPUs
>>> as there seem to be many of them out there with restrictions for special
>>> use cases - like real-time.
>>>    
>> Newer kernels do report some vmx features (like flexpriority) in
>> /proc/cpuinfo but not all.
>>
> 
> Ah, nice. Then we just need this?
> 

Fine with me.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

However, I guess the real question if we shouldn't export ALL VMX
features in a consistent way instead?

	-hpa