Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] xen/x86: various XPTI speedups

2018-04-13 Thread Juergen Gross
On 13/04/18 11:59, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 12/04/18 19:09, Juergen Gross wrote: >> This patch series aims at reducing the overhead of the XPTI Meltdown >> mitigation. > > Sadly, there are still problems.  > > (XEN) [ 13.486805] Dom0 has maximum 2 VCPUs > (XEN) [ 13.486824] [ Xen-4.11.0-

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] xen/x86: various XPTI speedups

2018-04-13 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 12/04/18 19:09, Juergen Gross wrote: > This patch series aims at reducing the overhead of the XPTI Meltdown > mitigation. Sadly, there are still problems.  (XEN) [ 13.486805] Dom0 has maximum 2 VCPUs (XEN) [ 13.486824] [ Xen-4.11.0-5.0.3-d x86_64 debug=y Not tainted ] (XEN) [

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] xen/x86: various XPTI speedups

2018-04-12 Thread Juergen Gross
This patch series aims at reducing the overhead of the XPTI Meltdown mitigation. Patch 1 had been posted before, the main changes in this patch are due to addressing Jan's comments on my first version. The main objective of that patch is to avoid copying the L4 page table each time the guest is be