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

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On 23/05/2018 16:44, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Unloading the MMU on nested entry/exit doesn't seem deliberate,
> e.g. why bother with VPID handling in prepare_vmcs02() if KVM
> intends to unconditionally flush?  I think figuring out how to
> avoid unloading the MMU in those cases will resolve the issue
> of the TLB being flushed on every switch between L1 and L2,
> though I get the feeling that that will mean doing a holistic
> analysis of the (nested) MMU handling.

My plan there was just to add a third kvm_mmu struct, which (as a start)
requires getting rid of all references to vcpu->arch.mmu in arch/x86/kvm/.

Paolo



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