Re: [PATCH RFC 00/10] Intel EPT-Based Sub-page Write Protection Support.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/11/2017 01:12, Yi Zhang wrote:
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> Adding Ravi, 
> 
> Does anyone have further comments on current implementation, it is a
> important feature in our next generation chip-set.

What matters is not the feature, but the use case; without a use case,
there is no point in including code for SPP in KVM.  KVM doesn't use
VMFUNC or #VE for example, because they are not necessary.

SPP may become useful once we have the introspection interface.  Or, if
another hypervisor uses it, support for nested SPP may be useful (for
example we support nested VMFUNC and should get nested #VE sooner or
later, even though the features are not used on bare metal).

Right now, however, supporting SPP does not seem to be particularly
important honestly.

Paolo