Re: [PATCH 7/8] kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_VMX_STATE

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On 19/12/2017 04:07, Jim Mattson wrote:
> The other unfortunate thing about flushing the "current" VMCS12 state
> to guest memory on each L2->userspace transition is that much of this
> state is in the VMCS02. So,it's not just a matter of writing a
> VMCS12_SIZE blob to guest memory; first, the cached VMCS12 has to be
> updated from the VMCS02 by calling sync_vmcs12(). This will be
> particularly bad for double-nesting, where L1 kvm has to take all of
> those VMREAD VM-exits.
> 
> If you still prefer this method, I will go ahead and do it, but I
> remain opposed.

I don't (for a different reason---SVM also has off-RAM state).

Paolo



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