On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote: > On Tue, 2 May 2017 17:31:15 -0300 > Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Introduce a new CPUFeatureSetting QAPI data type, and use it to support > > feature=force on -cpu. > commit message lacks rationale why it's needed. > I suspect that it's to enable forced mwait. > It would be nice to put here answer to what > motivated to write this patch and reference commit ids > of kernel patches if there are/needed any to make it work.
In this case I need to ask Alex for help writing the rationale, as he is sent the original mwait CPUID override patch. It's not clear to me yet why KVM doesn't return MONITOR on GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID today, making this patch unnecessary. -- Eduardo
