On Fri, 23 Sep 2022 21:27:08 -0400
Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 06:03:44PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 10:41:59AM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:  
> > > It's worth putting history excavation with explanation what is broken and 
> > > why
> > > compat stuff is being ignored in the patch.  
> > 
> > Makes sense, I'll amend the commit message and repost.  Thanks,  
> 
> There's actually one way to slightly remedy this single case, mostly for
> any QEMU 7.1.0 user with -smp <=8 and the intel iommu (as 77250171bdc02 is
> merged only in 7.1.0).
> 
> We can have one compact parameter x-eim-enable-kvm-x2apic, setting it "on"
> by default, "off" for 7.1, and "on" for 7.0-.
> 
> I'm not very sure whether that'll worth it.  Any thoughts?

How it (enabling x2apic API) would affect kvm/guests running with 8 or less CPUs
and with intel iommu + remapping?

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