Re: kvm-hint-dedicated requires host CPU passthrough?

2020-07-16 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 01:58:13PM +0200, Wim ten Have wrote: > Hi Stefan, sorry for my very late response as I was temporarily out > and unfortunately missed this email thread. > > For your question (remark), yes, you're right. This feature should > not apply to specific scenario. > Something

Re: kvm-hint-dedicated requires host CPU passthrough?

2020-06-29 Thread Wim ten Have
Oh, I also see that my claws-mail filters are in chaos and that there's additional email to this mail-thread. On Thu, 21 May 2020 16:14:34 +0100 Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 07:23:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 20/05/20 19:13, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > > Hi, > >

Re: kvm-hint-dedicated requires host CPU passthrough?

2020-06-29 Thread Wim ten Have
Hi Stefan, sorry for my very late response as I was temporarily out and unfortunately missed this email thread. For your question (remark), yes, you're right. This feature should not apply to specific scenario. Something else to look into is that the feature can only work if the serving layer

Re: kvm-hint-dedicated requires host CPU passthrough?

2020-05-21 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 07:23:32PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 20/05/20 19:13, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > Hi, > > libvirt refuses to set KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED when the CPU model is not > > host-passthrough. > > > > Is there a reason for this limitation? > > > > My understanding is that

Re: kvm-hint-dedicated requires host CPU passthrough?

2020-05-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/05/20 19:13, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Hi, > libvirt refuses to set KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED when the CPU model is not > host-passthrough. > > Is there a reason for this limitation? > > My understanding is that KVM_HINTS_DEDICATED means the vCPU is pinned to > a host CPU that is not shared with