From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Haozhong Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH XEN v3 0/2] add support for vNVDIMM - Part 1: enable instructions Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 21:03:17 +0800 Message-ID: <20160108130317.GA16393@hz-desktop.sh.intel.com> References: <1452249987-31776-1-git-send-email-haozhong.zhang@intel.com> <568FB09E02000078000C4D39@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <568FB09E02000078000C4D39@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: Kevin Tian , Wei Liu , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Andrew Cooper , Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jun Nakajima , Keir Fraser List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 01/08/16 04:50, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 08.01.16 at 11:46, wrote: > > I split the previous patch series "[PATCH 0/4] add support for vNVDIMM" > > into two parts. This is the first part that enables clflushopt/clwb/pcommit > > instructions for HVM guests. > > > > Changes in v3: > > * Remove unnecessary hypervisor code for clflushopt and clwb in patch 1. > > Which should have led to a Cc list reduction. > I'll take care in the next time. > > * Move the code refactoring in hvm_cpuid() to patch 2. > > * Replace checking host cpuid by checking VMX capabilities for pcommit. > > Replace? > Yes, akin to how MPX is checked in hvm_cpuid(). Or do you mean it's better to check host cpuid as well? Haozhong