On 06/10/2013 09:43 AM, Sanjay Lal wrote:
On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:03 PM, David Daney wrote:
From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
These patches take a somewhat different approach to MIPS
virtualization via the MIPS-VZ extensions than the patches previously
sent by Sanjay Lal.
Several facts about the code:
o Currently probably only usable on the OCTEON III CPU model, as some
MIPS-VZ implementation-defined behaviors were assumed to have the
OCTEON III behavior.
I've only briefly gone over the patches, but I was wondering if the Cavium implementation has support for GuestIDs, which are optional in the VZ-ASE?
No, OCTEON III does not support this optional behavior. For the most
part this only impacts TLB management. I think in the context of KVM,
you cannot leave foreign Guest's TLB entries present in the Guest TLB
anyhow, so the feature is of little use.
Since MIPS TLBs are managed by software, it is valid for a guest to
populate the TLB in any way it desires. To have the hypervisor (KVM)
come and randomly invalidate the TLB, via the GuestID mechanism, would
both be detectable by the guest, and potentially make the guest operate
incorrectly.
David Daney
Regards
Sanjay
