[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/3] VMX/Viridian: suppress MSR-based APIC suggestion when having APIC-V

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

When the CPU has the necessary capabilities, having Windows use
synthetic MSR reads/writes is bogus, as this still requires emulation
(which is pretty much guaranteed to be slower than having the hardware
carry out the operation).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

--- a/xen/arch/x86/hvm/viridian.c
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/hvm/viridian.c
@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ int cpuid_viridian_leaves(unsigned int l
         if ( (d->arch.hvm_domain.viridian.guest_os_id.raw == 0) ||
              (d->arch.hvm_domain.viridian.guest_os_id.fields.os < 4) )
             break;
-        *eax = (CPUID4A_MSR_BASED_APIC |
-                CPUID4A_RELAX_TIMER_INT);
+        *eax = CPUID4A_RELAX_TIMER_INT;
+        if ( !cpu_has_vmx_apic_reg_virt )
+            *eax |= CPUID4A_MSR_BASED_APIC;
         *ebx = 2047; /* long spin count */
         break;
     }

Attachment: x86-Viridian-CPUID-APICV.patch
Description: Text document

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