On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 06:15:25AM -0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED performance hint, guest checks this feature bit
> to determine if they run on dedicated vCPUs, allowing optimizations such
> as usage of qspinlocks.
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
> + [FEAT_KVM_HINTS] = {
> + .feat_names = {
> + "hint-dedicated", NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL,
> + },
> + .cpuid_eax = KVM_CPUID_FEATURES, .cpuid_reg = R_EDX,
> + .tcg_features = TCG_KVM_FEATURES,
> + },
Do you have a pointer to the KVM patch that adds this bit to
Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt? I would like to wait until
the KVM CPUID docs are updated before applying the patch to QEMU.
--
Eduardo
