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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv1] x86: don't schedule when handling #NM exception
On 03/17/2014 05:19 AM, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> No, the right thing is to unf*ck the Xen braindamage and use eagerfpu as a workaround for the legacy hypervisor versions.
>
> The interface wasn't an accident. In the most common case you'll want
> to clear the bit anyway. In PV mode clearing it would require an extra
> trip up into the hypervisor. So this saves one trip up into the
> hypervisor on every context switch which involves an FPU, at the
> expense of not being able to context-switch away when handling the
> trap.
>
> -George
>

The interface was a complete faceplant, because it caused failures.
You're not infinitely unconstrained since you want to play in the same
sandbox as the native architecture, and if you want to have a hope of
avoiding these kinds of failures you really need to avoid making random
"improvements", certainly not without an explicit guest opt-in (the same
we do for the native CPU architecture when adding new features.)

So if this interface wasn't an accident it was active negligence and
incompetence.

-hpa



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