[PATCH RFC 1/1] qemu: capabilities: disable csske for host cpu

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger at de.ibm.com
Fri Mar 11 12:54:37 UTC 2022


Am 11.03.22 um 13:27 schrieb David Hildenbrand:
> On 11.03.22 13:12, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 11.03.22 um 10:23 schrieb David Hildenbrand:
>>> On 11.03.22 10:17, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 11:17:38PM -0500, Collin Walling wrote:
>>>>> CPU models past gen16a will no longer support the csske feature. In
>>>>> order to secure migration of guests running on machines that still
>>>>> support this feature to machines that do not, let's disable csske
>>>>> in the host-model.
>>>
>>> Sorry to say, removing CPU features is a no-go when wanting to guarantee
>>> forward migration without taking care about CPU model details manually
>>> and simply using the host model. Self-made HW vendor problem.
>>
>> And this simply does not reflect reality. Intel and Power have removed TX
>> for example. We can now sit back and please ourselves how we live in our
>> world of dreams. Or we can try to define an interface that deals with
>> reality and actually solves problems.
>>
> 
> Ehm, so, I spell out the obvious and get such a reaction? Okay, thank you.

Sorry, reading my writing again shows that I clearly miscommunicated in a
very bad style. My point was rather trying to solve a problem instead
I wrote something up in a hurry which resulted in something offensive.

Please accept my apologies.



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