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Date:	Mon, 1 Dec 2014 18:55:06 +0100
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Nadav Amit <namit@...technion.ac.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] KVM: x86: APIC fixes

2014-12-01 17:22+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 27/11/2014 20:03, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> > The interesting one is [3/4], which improves upon a previous CVE fix;
> > we also handle logical destination wrapping in it, so [2/4] does the
> > same for physical;  and to make it nicer, [1/4] removes a condition.
> > [4/4] makes our fast path return true when the message was handled.
> > 
> > Radim Krčmář (4):
> >   KVM: x86: deliver phys lowest-prio
> >   KVM: x86: fix APIC physical destination wrapping
> >   KVM: x86: allow 256 logical x2APICs again
> >   KVM: x86: don't retry hopeless APIC delivery
> > 
> >  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
> >  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h |  2 --
> >  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> So the order should be 1/2/5/3/4, right?

It would be safer, thank you.

(And when I look at it now, [4/4] would be better as 1st.)
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