From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:55:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A12C84A.5070100@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090519141708.GA6008@elte.hu>
>>>> No, the linux kernel probably should do the wrmsr on one cpu only then.
>>> Why?
> | The change of MTRR's on _any_ of the guest CPUs in a dom0 context
> | should immediately be refected on all CPUs. Assymetric MTRR
> | settings are madness.
Exactly. And thats why it is pointless to let the dom0 kernel write the
mtrr msrs on more than one cpu.
>>>> Oops, the third "proper technical solutions" is missing.
>>> Yeah, the third one is to not touch MTRRs after bootup and use PAT.
>> Works only in case the CPU has PAT support.
>
> Which specific CPU without PAT support do you worry about?
For example: I have a Notebook here, with MTRR and without PAT
according to the boot log. "Pentium III (Coppermine)" says /proc/cpuinfo.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-19 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-12 23:27 [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen: set cpu_callout_mask to make mtrr work Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 2/6] xen mtrr: Use specific cpu_has_foo macros instead of generic cpu_has() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 3/6] xen mtrr: Use generic_validate_add_page() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] xen mtrr: Implement xen_get_free_region() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 5/6] xen mtrr: Add xen_{get,set}_mtrr() implementations Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-12 23:27 ` [PATCH 6/6] xen mtrr: Kill some unnecessary includes Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-13 13:30 ` [GIT PULL] xen /proc/mtrr implementation Ingo Molnar
2009-05-13 14:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-15 18:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-15 20:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-15 23:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-15 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-16 3:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-16 4:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-16 18:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-05-18 5:02 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-18 4:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-18 8:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-18 13:17 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-05-18 17:51 ` Chris Wright
2009-05-18 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-19 9:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 10:22 ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2009-05-19 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 12:04 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 12:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 12:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-19 12:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 13:21 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 13:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 13:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-19 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-19 14:55 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-05-19 15:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-20 8:01 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-05-20 16:35 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 16:12 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 8:16 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-20 16:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 22:52 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-20 22:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-05-20 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-25 8:42 [Xen-devel] " Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-25 9:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-25 9:31 ` Jan Beulich
2009-05-25 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-25 16:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
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