From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 22:27:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171110212718.GA2189@flask> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171026071327.15427-1-pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-10-26 09:13+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> For many years some users of assigned devices have reported worse
> performance on AMD processors with NPT than on AMD without NPT,
> Intel or bare metal.
>
> The reason turned out to be that SVM is discarding the guest PAT
> setting and uses the default (PA0=PA4=WB, PA1=PA5=WT, PA2=PA6=UC-,
> PA3=UC). The guest might be using a different setting, and
> especially might want write combining but isn't getting it
> (instead getting slow UC or UC- accesses).
>
> Thanks a lot to geoff@hostfission.com for noticing the relation
> to the g_pat setting. The patch has been tested also by a bunch
> of people on VFIO users forums.
>
> Fixes: 709ddebf81cb40e3c36c6109a7892e8b93a09464
> Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196409
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-10 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-26 7:13 [PATCH] KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT Paolo Bonzini
2017-10-26 8:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2017-10-26 15:00 ` Nick Sarnie
2017-11-10 21:27 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
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