Re: [PATCH 0/3, v2] x86: xor-block handling adjustments

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 14:29:30 EST


On 01/25/2013 12:21 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>> I don't see anything wrong, except that I can't *find* patch 3/3 either
>> in my inbox nor on LKML...
>
> I can certainly resend the whole set, but our email system even
> got a delivery confirmation from yours on patch 3 (other than
> e.g. from Ingo's, and all of this identical to 0...2).
>
> Or see https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1688991/, according
> to which you even responded to it (which is the concern Ingo was
> referring to).
>

Ah yes, now I have the context.

And with that, I have to NAK the patch. I did talk to the KVM people
and they confirmed that this is NOT something they want. They do not
program VT-x to VMEXIT on CR0 changes.

So this is Xen-specific, and penalizing other hypervisors is wrong.

-hpa


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