Re: [PATCH 1/5] kvm: x86: Add payload to kvm_queued_exception and kvm_vcpu_events

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> On 15 Oct 2018, at 21:42, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 15/10/2018 20:07, Liran Alon wrote:
>> Just out of curiosity, why is this specifically a decision-point for flipping nested=1?
>> Because this is a break of userspace APIs in case of nVMX workloads?
>> What are the conditions for flipping it?
>> 
>> If that’s the case, this is also true for the get/set vCPU events IOCTLs.
>> So they need to also be applied before the flip. 
> 
> Yes, I meant v2 of the whole series.  It is not strictly necessary to
> have this before the flip, but we're close enough that it makes sense to
> order that.
> 
> Paolo

Kinda weird that this decision seem to easily have been taken for AMD in commit:
4b6e4dca7011 ("KVM: SVM: enable nested svm by default”)
I highly doubt that KVM nSVM is really more stable than KVM nVMX…
But maybe I’m wrong.

-Liran





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