linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86/kvm/nVMX: optimize MMU switch between L1 and L2

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Message-ID: <8e863a43-b356-809a-93f7-a780e45fdce8@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Aug 2018 12:27:51 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] x86/kvm/nVMX: optimize MMU switch between L1 and L2

On 02/08/2018 12:01, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Brief look at SVM makes me think it can be optimized the exact same way.
> I'll do this in a separate series if nobody objects.

If you want to rewrite nested SVM altogether to look more like VMX,
that's also a good idea. :)  All the stuff like check_nested_events and
nested_run_pending should apply to SVM as well.

Paolo