[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] Revert "target-i386: Disable HLE and RTM on Haswell & Broadwell"
Daniel P. Berrange
berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 16 10:18:24 UTC 2015
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 04:09:56PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This reverts commit 13704e4c455770d500d6b87b117e32f0d01252c9.
>
> With the Intel microcode update that removed HLE and RTM, there will be
> different kinds of Haswell and Broadwell CPUs out there: some that still
> have the HLE and RTM features, and some that don't have the HLE and RTM
> features. On both cases people may be willing to use the pc-*-2.3
> machine-types.
>
> So instead of making the CPU model results confusing by making it depend
> on the machine-type, keep HLE and RTM on the existing Haswell and
> Broadwell CPU models. The plan is to introduce "Haswell-noTSX" and
> "Broadwell-noTSX" CPU models later, for people who have CPUs that don't
> have TSX feature available.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>
Yep, in this situation we need to support both "models" of CPU, so changing
based on machine type is inappropriate in this scenario.
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
Regards,
Daniel
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