From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Sean Christopherson" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"kvm list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Liran Alon" <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: nVMX: Intercept VMWRITEs to read-only shadow VMCS fields
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:36:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALMp9eQU-OLnGX40=tCjYPWen5ee3rziMHQOTt7fyd1NVdaAsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d82caf7-1735-a5e8-8206-bdec3ddf12d4@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:18 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> Also, while this may vary dynamically based on the L2 guest that is
> running, this is much less true for unrestricted-guest processors.
> Without data on _which_ scenarios are bad for a static set of shadowed
> fields, I'm not really happy to add even more complexity.
Data supporting which scenarios would lead you to entertain more
complexity? Is it even worth collecting data on L3 performance, for
example? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-13 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-07 15:36 [PATCH 0/7] KVM: nVMX: Optimize VMCS data copying Sean Christopherson
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM: nVMX: Intercept VMWRITEs to read-only shadow VMCS fields Sean Christopherson
2019-06-06 13:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-13 17:02 ` Jim Mattson
2019-06-13 17:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-13 17:36 ` Jim Mattson [this message]
2019-06-13 17:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] KVM: nVMX: Intercept VMWRITEs to GUEST_{CS,SS}_AR_BYTES Sean Christopherson
2019-06-06 13:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] KVM: nVMX: Track vmcs12 offsets for shadowed VMCS fields Sean Christopherson
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] KVM: nVMX: Lift sync_vmcs12() out of prepare_vmcs12() Sean Christopherson
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM: nVMX: Use descriptive names for VMCS sync functions and flags Sean Christopherson
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM: nVMX: Add helpers to identify shadowed VMCS fields Sean Christopherson
2019-05-07 15:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM: nVMX: Sync rarely accessed guest fields only when needed Sean Christopherson
2019-06-06 15:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
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