All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	"Ian Jackson" <iwj@xenproject.org>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>, "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxg: don't use max policy in xc_cpuid_xend_policy()
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 15:58:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201106155839.vnhdqcptbpkbzfly@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fa05759-24ac-5ff3-3db9-94537f6be95d@suse.com>

On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 04:56:53PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Using max undermines the separation between default and max. For example,
> turning off AVX512F on an MPX-capable system silently turns on MPX,
> despite this not being part of the default policy anymore. Since the
> information is used only for determining what to convert 'x' to (but not
> to e.g. validate '1' settings), the effect of this change is identical
> for guests with (suitable) "cpuid=" settings to that of the changes
> separating default from max and then converting (e.g.) MPX from being
> part of default to only being part of max for guests without (affected)
> "cpuid=" settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

I will defer this to Andrew.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 15:56 [PATCH] libxg: don't use max policy in xc_cpuid_xend_policy() Jan Beulich
2020-11-06 15:58 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2020-11-23 13:58   ` Jan Beulich
2021-04-01  8:08     ` Ping: " Jan Beulich
2021-04-01 11:33 ` Andrew Cooper

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20201106155839.vnhdqcptbpkbzfly@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2 \
    --to=wl@xen.org \
    --cc=andrew.cooper3@citrix.com \
    --cc=iwj@xenproject.org \
    --cc=jbeulich@suse.com \
    --cc=roger.pau@citrix.com \
    --cc=xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.