Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] KVM: nVMX: Enable nested apicv support.

From: Wincy Van
Date: Wed Jan 28 2015 - 01:37:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:06 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 24/01/2015 11:18, Wincy Van wrote:
>> v2 ---> v3:
>> 1. Add a new field in nested_vmx to avoid the spin lock in v2.
>> 2. Drop send eoi to L1 when doing nested interrupt delivery.
>> 3. Use hardware MSR bitmap to enable nested virtualize x2apic
>> mode.
>
> I think the patches are mostly okay. I made a few comments.
>

Thank you, Paolo and Yang. I can't accomplish this without your help.

> One of the things to do on top could be to avoid rebuilding the whole
> vmcs02 on every entry. Recomputing the MSR bitmap on every vmentry is
> not particularly nice, for example. It is not necessary unless the
> execution controls have changed.

Indeed, I was planned to do that optimization after this patch set.


Thanks,
Wincy

>
> Paolo
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