From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIvnD-0000eq-Vh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 08:44:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIvn9-00005K-US for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 08:44:32 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:60152 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fIvn9-000051-PJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 16 May 2018 08:44:27 -0400 References: <1523953455-28053-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> <20180417205913.GC29865@localhost.localdomain> <02887fa6-d7c8-bc39-6e65-3c3caec5b903@redhat.com> <20180419195610.GA29865@localhost.localdomain> <98f48c44-e55a-2bd2-0d41-5643f35bce68@redhat.com> <20180419215320.GC29865@localhost.localdomain> <20180512010007-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:44:24 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180512010007-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2] i386/kvm: add support for KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost Cc: Wanpeng Li , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?B?UmFkaW0gS3LEjW3DocWZ?= On 12/05/2018 00:12, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> Maybe it's a better idea than overloading an option that is only >> expected to control a CPUID bit. > Well -realtime would be a bit confusing in that it enables mlock by > default. Currently, the only suboption of "-realtime" is mlock, which means that the only three valid uses of it are -realtime mlock=on -realtime mlock=off -realtime '' We can change the default, I think. Only the third would change meaning, and it's a slightly crazy way to use the option. > From pure API point of view, hint-dedicated looks good since > it seems to say "optimize for a dedicated host CPU" and > it's a hint in that guests keep working if you violate this > slightly once in a while. > > But I agree there's a problem: right now "kvm-" means "KVM PV" > as opposed to e.g. HV enlightened gusts. > So if you enable hyperv and also want to disable halt existing, > what then? What should kvm-hint-dedicated=on do? kvm-hint-dedicated=on only sets the CPUID bit, which Linux for example uses that to disable pv spinlocks. "-realtime dedicated-cpus=on" only disables the vmexits. You can use the two independently. Thanks, Paolo > So how about a new hint-dedicated=on cpu flag? We can have that set > kvm-hint-dedicated if kvm PV is enabled. >