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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] TAAv7 10
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:24:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023072448.GC12272@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191022183920.6ecpldfejup3hekf@treble>

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 01:39:20PM -0500, speck for Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> Regardless, this patch adds complexity and still seems very fragile.  It
> will add maintenance issues and probably introduce bugs.  And, most
> importantly there's *still* not a real world justification for it.
> Please drop it from the series.

Yeah, and here's nasty use case if we did the runtime toggle thing: you
boot with TSX on, start guests, they see TSX and start using it and then
you disable it in the host.

I believe I read somewhere Andrew saying it won't #UD but it would abort
all transactions, which is still not nice and leaves the burden on the
sysadmin explaining why guests experience perf penatly all of a sudden.

Not good.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-23  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-21 20:22 [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 00/10] TAAv7 0 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:23 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 01/10] TAAv7 1 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:24 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 02/10] TAAv7 2 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:25 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 03/10] TAAv7 3 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:26 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:27 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 05/10] TAAv7 5 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:28 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 06/10] TAAv7 6 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:29 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 07/10] TAAv7 7 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:30 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 08/10] TAAv7 8 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 20:31 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 09/10] TAAv7 9 Michal Hocko
2019-10-21 20:32 ` [MODERATED] [PATCH v7 10/10] TAAv7 10 Pawan Gupta
2019-10-21 21:32 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 00/10] TAAv7 0 Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-21 23:06   ` Andrew Cooper
2019-10-22  0:34   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22  4:10 ` [MODERATED] Jon Masters
2019-10-22  5:53   ` [MODERATED] Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22  7:58 ` [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** [PATCH v7 07/10] TAAv7 7 Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 16:55   ` [MODERATED] " Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22  8:00 ` [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** [PATCH v7 09/10] TAAv7 9 Michal Hocko
2019-10-22  8:15 ` [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** [PATCH v7 03/10] TAAv7 3 Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 14:42   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 16:48     ` [MODERATED] " Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 17:01       ` [MODERATED] Re: ***UNCHECKED*** " Michal Hocko
2019-10-22 17:35         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 14:38 ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 16:58   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 14:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 17:00   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 17:16     ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 18:07       ` [MODERATED] " Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 15:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 18:36   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 18:59     ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 16:51 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4 Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 17:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 18:00     ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 18:12       ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 19:16         ` Luck, Tony
2019-10-22 19:28           ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 20:02             ` Luck, Tony
2019-10-22 20:48               ` [MODERATED] Jon Masters
2019-10-22 20:54               ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4 Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 21:38                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 21:46                   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 22:06                     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 22:13                       ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 17:44   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 19:04     ` [MODERATED] " Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 21:29       ` [MODERATED] " Pawan Gupta
2019-10-22 21:53         ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 22:05           ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23  0:27             ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-23  5:25               ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-23  6:46                 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23 13:28                   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-23 14:39                     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23  1:33   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-23  6:48     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 17:25 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 01/10] TAAv7 1 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23  9:26   ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-22 17:26 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 20:44   ` [MODERATED] Jon Masters
2019-10-22 17:47 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 03/10] TAAv7 3 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 18:39 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 10/10] TAAv7 10 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23  7:24   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-10-22 21:20 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 04/10] TAAv7 4 Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 21:35   ` Andrew Cooper
2019-10-22 21:44     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-22 22:03       ` Andrew Cooper
2019-10-23  1:16         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23 15:46 ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 00/10] TAAv7 0 Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23 17:11   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-10-23 21:49     ` Borislav Petkov
2019-10-23 22:12   ` Pawan Gupta
2019-10-24 14:08     ` Borislav Petkov
     [not found] ` <5dae165e.1c69fb81.4beee.e271SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2019-10-24 20:53   ` [MODERATED] Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] TAAv7 6 Paolo Bonzini
2019-10-24 21:00     ` Luck, Tony
2019-10-24 21:33       ` Paolo Bonzini

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