Re: [PATCH 0/4]: KVM: nVMX: VPID optimizations

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2018-05-22 17:16+0300, Liran Alon:
> Hi,
> 
> This series aims to optimize KVM nested-VPID implementation.
> Note: All the patches in this series are indepdendent and can be
> applied seperately.
> 
> 1st patch is just a small refactoring change.
> 
> 2nd patch fixes a corner-case of not failing INVVPID type 0
> (individiual-address) in case operand.vpid==0.
> 
> 3rd patch fixes an ancient issue of unnecessarely flushing TLB when
> exiting from L2 to L1 even though TLB entries populated by L2 are
> tagged with different VPID (vmx->nested.vpid02) than TLB entries
> populated by L1 (vmx->vpid).
> 
> 4rd patch optimizes L1 INVVPID type 0 (individiual-address) handling
> by emulating it with INVVPID type 0 executed at L0 level. This allows
> flushing only a single TLB entry tagged with vmx->nested.vpid02
> instead of all TLB entries tagged with vmx->nested.vpid02.

Queued, thanks.



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