Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM-INTEL: Add new module vmcsinfo-intel tofill VMCSINFO

[HATAYAMA Daisuke]

From: Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM-INTEL: Add new module vmcsinfo-intel to fill VMCSINFO
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 16:25:23 +0800

> At 07/06/2012 04:04 PM, HATAYAMA Daisuke Wrote:
>> From: Yanfei Zhang <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM-INTEL: Add new module vmcsinfo-intel to fill VMCSINFO
>> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:05:19 +0800
>> 
>>> Besides, this patch also exports vmcs revision identifier via
>>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vmcs_id and offsets of fields via
>>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/vmcs/.
>>> Individual offsets are contained in subfiles named by the filed's
>>> encoding, e.g.: /sys/devices/cpu/vmcs/0800
>> 
>> According to the discussion starting from
>> 
>> http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1105.3/00749.html
> 
> IIRC, kvm can not work in such environment. The vcpu can run on
> different cpu. If the cpu's vmcs is different, I don't know what
> will happen. So do we need to support for such environment now?
> I think that if kvm can not work in such environment, we should
> not provide vmcs information for each physical cpu.
> 

I think so too. The design can be kept very simple if kvm doesn't
support such case, and it would be good news. Is it true?

Thanks.
HATAYAMA, Daisuke

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