[pve-devel] [PATCH-SERIES kernel] backport fix for kvm performance regression with Intel Emerald Rapids

Fiona Ebner f.ebner at proxmox.com
Thu Dec 19 15:29:43 CET 2024


Stumbled across this in the news [0].

Built, installed on a (CPU type 'host') VM and started a nested VM for
both 6.8 and 6.11 as a smoke test. Note I have an AMD TR 7960X, but
AFIACT, the patch affects a general code path not specific to Intel
CPUs.

[0]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc3-Released


Fiona Ebner (2):
  patches: kernel: switch to using full index for patch files
  backport fix for kvm performance regression with Intel Emerald Rapids

 ...-accept-an-alternate-timestamp-strin.patch |   2 +-
 ...d-Debian-wireless-regdb-certificates.patch |   2 +-
 ...idge-keep-MAC-of-first-assigned-port.patch |   2 +-
 ...ides-for-missing-ACS-capabilities-4..patch |   4 +-
 ...-default-dynamic-halt-polling-growth.patch |   2 +-
 ...de-unregister_netdevice-refcount-lea.patch |   2 +-
 ...fortify-Do-not-cast-to-unsigned-char.patch |   2 +-
 ...sk-out-PKRU-bit-in-xfeatures-if-vCPU.patch |   6 +-
 ...allow-pass-through-on-broken-hardwar.patch |   2 +-
 ...-Advertise-support-for-flush-by-ASID.patch |   2 +-
 ...rove-userspace-warnings-for-missing-.patch |   2 +-
 ...pect-msg_namelen-0-for-recvmsg-calls.patch |   2 +-
 ...ix-pagecache-leak-when-do-writepages.patch |   2 +-
 ...pu-pm-Don-t-use-OD-table-on-Arcturus.patch |   2 +-
 ...UCE-iommu-intel-disable-DMAR-for-SKL.patch |   2 +-
 ...t-EOPNOTSUPP-for-IOCB_NOWAIT-like-EA.patch |   2 +-
 ...et-subreq-iov-iter-before-tail-clean.patch |   2 +-
 ...r-virtualized-VMLOAD-VMSAVE-on-Zen4-.patch |   2 +-
 ...UID.0xD-XSTATE-offsets-sizes-during-.patch | 165 ++++++++++++++++++
 19 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 patches/kernel/0019-KVM-x86-Cache-CPUID.0xD-XSTATE-offsets-sizes-during-.patch

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