RE: [PATCH v13 3/5] i386: Enable TOPOEXT feature on AMD EPYC CPU

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Habkost [mailto:ehabkost@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2018 12:18 PM
> To: Moger, Babu <Babu.Moger@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: mst@xxxxxxxxxx; marcel.apfelbaum@xxxxxxxxx; pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx;
> rth@xxxxxxxxxxx; mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx; qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx;
> kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jiri
> Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 3/5] i386: Enable TOPOEXT feature on AMD EPYC
> CPU
> 
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:52:18PM +0000, Moger, Babu wrote:
> [...]
> > > What do you think our options are here?
> >
> > Should we drop automatic topoext completely and move forward?
> > What are your thoughts?
> 
> Let's drop automatic topoext by now, and see if we find solutions
> later.  I don't want to hold the rest of the patches because of
> this.

Ok. I will drop topoext.

> 
> I'm thinking we could simply make kvm_arch_get_supported_cpuid()
> always return TOPOEXT on AMD CPUs, because the feature flag don't
> really depend on any KVM code to work (is that correct?).

Yes, that is correct. I don't see any dependent code on TOPOEXT in KVM driver.

Ok. Let me add TOPOEXT flag for all the AMD cpus and see how it goes.

> 
> --
> Eduardo




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