Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: nVMX: Don't flush TLB when vmcs12 uses VPID

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On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ----- jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:16 AM, Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > +       /*
>> > +        * If vmcs01 don't use VPID, CPU flushes TLB on every
>> > +        * VMEntry/VMExit. Thus, no need to flush TLB.
>> > +        *
>> > +        * If vmcs12 uses VPID, TLB entries populated by L2 are
>> > +        * tagged with vmx->nested.vpid02 while L1 entries are
>> tagged
>> > +        * with vmx->vpid. Thus, no need to flush TLB.
>> > +        *
>>
>> Furthermore, If vmcs12 uses EPT, TLB entries populated by L2 are
>> tagged with the vmcs02 EP4TA while L1 entries are tagged with the
>> vmcs01 EP4TA. Thus, no need to flush the TLB.
>
> I agree. But let's do that as a separate patch on top of this patch.
> To make each patch more readable and handle one issue at a time.

In that case...

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@xxxxxxxxxx>



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