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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] target-i386: turn off CPU.l3-cache only for
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] target-i386: turn off CPU.l3-cache only for 2.7 and older machine types |
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Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:31:22 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) |
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:08:30AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:23:47 -0300
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:01:50PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > commit (14c985cff target-i386: present virtual L3 cache info for vcpus)
> > > misplaced compat property putting it in new 2.8 machine type
> > > which would effectively to disable feature until 2.9 is released.
> > > Intent of commit probably should be to disable feature for 2.7
> > > and older while allowing not yet released 2.8 to have feature
> > > enabled by default.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > > include/hw/i386/pc.h | 9 ++++-----
> > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/hw/i386/pc.h b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
> > > index d5654ab..1c5fd08 100644
> > > --- a/include/hw/i386/pc.h
> > > +++ b/include/hw/i386/pc.h
> > > @@ -369,17 +369,16 @@ int e820_get_num_entries(void);
> > > bool e820_get_entry(int, uint32_t, uint64_t *, uint64_t *);
> > >
> > > #define PC_COMPAT_2_8 \
> > > +
> > > +#define PC_COMPAT_2_7 \
> > > + PC_COMPAT_2_8 \
> >
> > Same as patch 1/2: this doesn't seem to be necessary since commit
> > bacc344c548ce165a0001276ece56ee4b0bddae3.
>
> "l3-cache" is off for 2.8 regardless of bacc344c while it should be off
> only for 2.7 and older.
>
> Anyway, I'll respin because of 1/2 should be rewritten.
Yes, l3-cache on PC_COMPAT_2_7 is necessary. I was only talking
about the PC_COMPAT_2_8 line above, because it looked like a
newly added line (but now I see it was just the line from patch
1/2 being moved, sorry for the confusion).
--
Eduardo
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] pc: fixes broken compat logic, Longpeng (Mike), 2016/09/17