Am 20.01.2014 15:36, schrieb Eduardo Habkost: > This enables x2apic on the following CPU models: Conroe, Penryn, > Nehalem, Westmere, Opteron_G[12345]. > > Normally we try to keep the CPU model definitions as close as the real > CPUs as possible, but x2apic can be emulated by KVM without host CPU > support for x2apic, and it improves performance by reducing APIC access > overhead. x2apic emulation is available on KVM since 2009 (Linux > 2.6.32-rc1), there's no reason for not enabling x2apic by default when > running KVM. > > About testing: Conroe, Penryn, Nehalem, Westemere and Opteron_G[123] > have x2apic enabled on RHEL-6 since RHEL-6.0, so the presence of x2apic > on those CPU models got lots of testing in the last few years. I want to > eventually enable x2apic on all other CPU models as well, but it will > require some testing to ensure it won't confuse guests. > > This shouldn't affect TCG at all because features not supported by TCG > are automatically and silently disabled by QEMU when initializing the > CPU. > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > --- > v1 was sent in September 2013: > Message-Id: <1379704517-19177-1-git-send-email-ehabk...@redhat.com> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/234541 > > It got an Acked-by from Gleb but it was ignored by all maintainers.
Sorry, was still unread in my inbox. What changed between this version and said v1? Just moving to _1_7? I.e. should I add back Gleb's Acked-by before your Sob when applying? Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
