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

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:04:59PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

On 30/06/21 13:56, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:

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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:56:07AM +0200, Siddharth Chandrasekaran wrote:

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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.

Thanks! :)

~ Sid



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