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From:   Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] Enlightened VMCS support for KVM on Hyper-V
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Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:42:46 +0200
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Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> writes:

> Changes since v5:
> - Fix a couple of issues reported by kbuild test robot, both in
>   PATCH7 (hope Radim's Reviewed-by: stands).
>
> When running nested KVM on Hyper-V it's possible to use so called
> 'Enlightened VMCS' and do normal memory reads/writes instead of
> doing VMWRITE/VMREAD instructions. In addition, clean field mask
> provides a huge room for optimization on L0's side.
>
> Tight CPUID loop test shows significant speedup (E5-2667 v4 @ 3.20GHz):
>   Before: 18890 cycles
>   After: 8304 cycles
>

Paolo, Radim,

with Thomas' ACK on the series:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg166309.html

is there anything else needed for it to get merged (hoping for 4.17)?

Thanks,

-- 
  Vitaly