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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"mingo@redhat.com" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"gleb@redhat.com" <gleb@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86: properly handle kvm emulation of hyperv
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:59:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F0DAD1.8080108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <889e20ee-7655-4fdc-b30a-150b8604ca0f@email.android.com>

Il 24/07/2013 23:37, H. Peter Anvin ha scritto:
> What I'm suggesting is exactly that except that the native hypervisor is later in CPUID space.

Me too actually.

I was just suggesting an implementation of the idea (that takes into
account hypervisors detected by other means than CPUID).

Paolo

> KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> wrote:
>> As Paolo suggested if there were some priority encoded, the guest could make an
>> informed decision. If the guest under question can run on both hypervisors A and B,
>> we would rather the guest discover hypervisor A when running on A and
>> hypervisor B when running on B. The priority encoding could be as simple as
>> surfacing the native hypervisor signature earlier in the CPUID space.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-25  7:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-23  9:41 [PATCH 1/4] x86: introduce hypervisor_cpuid_base() Jason Wang
2013-07-23  9:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] xen: switch to use hypervisor_cpuid_base() Jason Wang
2013-07-23 11:16   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-23 15:55   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2013-07-23  9:41 ` [PATCH 3/4] kvm: " Jason Wang
2013-07-23 11:16   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-23  9:41 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: properly handle kvm emulation of hyperv Jason Wang
2013-07-23 11:17   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-23 13:55   ` KY Srinivasan
2013-07-23 14:48     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-23 17:45       ` KY Srinivasan
2013-07-23 18:45         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-23 22:42           ` KY Srinivasan
2013-07-24  4:37       ` Jason Wang
2013-07-24  4:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-24  6:54           ` Jason Wang
2013-07-24  7:06             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-24 14:01               ` KY Srinivasan
2013-07-24 15:14                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-24 19:05                   ` KY Srinivasan
2013-07-24 21:37                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-25  7:59                       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-07-25  8:12                         ` Jason Wang
2013-07-23 10:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] x86: introduce hypervisor_cpuid_base() H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-23 11:16   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-23 16:03     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-24  4:44       ` Jason Wang
2013-07-24  4:47         ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-07-23 13:48 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-07-24  4:34   ` Jason Wang

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