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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"Sean Christopherson" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	"Liran Alon" <liran.alon@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable cstate msr read intercepts
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 13:09:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b30067df-2929-9ce9-221f-0f1a84dd1228@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANRm+CyqH5ojNTcX3zfVjB8rayGHAW0Ex+fiGPnrO7bkmvr_4w@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/06/19 09:38, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> MSR_CORE_C1_RES is unreadable except for ATOM platform, so I think we
> can avoid the complex logic to handle C1 now. :)

I disagree.  Linux uses it on all platforms is available, and virtual
machines that don't pass mwait through _only_ have C1, so it would be
less useful to have deep C-state residency MSRs and not C1 residency.

But turbostat can get the information from sysfs, so what are these MSRs
used for?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-11 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-21  6:06 [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Documentation: Add disable pause exits to KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS Wanpeng Li
2019-05-21  6:06 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: X86: Provide a capability to disable cstate msr read intercepts Wanpeng Li
2019-06-04 16:53   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-05 10:56     ` Wanpeng Li
2019-06-11  7:38     ` Wanpeng Li
2019-06-11 11:09       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-06-11 11:35         ` Wanpeng Li
2019-06-12  2:20         ` Wanpeng Li
2019-05-21  6:06 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: X86: Emulate MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE MWAIT bit Wanpeng Li
2019-06-04 16:59   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-06-05 11:00     ` Wanpeng Li

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