linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for XMM fast hypercalls

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Date:   Tue, 6 Jul 2021 18:36:05 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha@...zon.de>
Cc:     "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        Siddharth Chandrasekaran <sidcha.dev@...il.com>,
        Alexander Graf <graf@...zon.com>,
        Evgeny Iakovlev <eyakovl@...zon.de>,
        Liran Alon <liran@...zon.com>,
        Ioannis Aslanidis <iaslan@...zon.de>,
        linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Add support for XMM fast hypercalls

On 06/07/21 17:15, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:04:59PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 30/06/21 13:56, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:56:07AM +0200, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>>> Hyper-V supports the use of XMM registers to perform fast hypercalls.
>>>> This allows guests to take advantage of the improved performance of the
>>>> fast hypercall interface even though a hypercall may require more than
>>>> (the current maximum of) two general purpose registers.
>>>>
>>>> The XMM fast hypercall interface uses an additional six XMM registers
>>>> (XMM0 to XMM5) to allow the caller to pass an input parameter block of
>>>> up to 112 bytes. Hyper-V can also return data back to the guest in the
>>>> remaining XMM registers that are not used by the current hypercall.
>>>>
>>>> Although the Hyper-v TLFS mentions that a guest cannot use this feature
>>>> unless the hypervisor advertises support for it, some hypercalls which
>>>> we plan on upstreaming in future uses them anyway. This patchset adds
>>>> necessary infrastructure for handling input/output via XMM registers and
>>>> patches kvm_hv_flush_tlb() to use xmm input arguments.
>>>
>>> Hi Paolo,
>>>
>>> Are you expecting more reviews on these patches?
>>
>> They are part of 5.14 already. :)
> 
> Ahh, I see them now. I was expecting them to show up in master - that was
> the confusion.

No problem! The patches for the rc period (in your case it was 5.13) go 
in master, while yours ended up in next (destined for 5.14).

I usually update master only after 5.14-rc1 is out.  In this case I 
didn't even have access to kvm.git on the day that Linus pulled your 
patches into his tree.

Paolo