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envelope-from=pbonzini@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -21 X-Spam_score: -2.2 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.063, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org From: Vitaly Kuznetsov While hyperv.rst already has all currently implemented Hyper-V enlightenments documented, it may be unclear what is the recommended set to achieve the best result. Add the corresponding section to the doc. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240917160051.2637594-5-vkuznets@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- docs/system/i386/hyperv.rst | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/system/i386/hyperv.rst b/docs/system/i386/hyperv.rst index 009947e3914..1c1de77feb6 100644 --- a/docs/system/i386/hyperv.rst +++ b/docs/system/i386/hyperv.rst @@ -283,6 +283,36 @@ Supplementary features feature alters this behavior and only allows the guest to use exposed Hyper-V enlightenments. +Recommendations +--------------- + +To achieve the best performance of Windows and Hyper-V guests and unless there +are any specific requirements (e.g. migration to older QEMU/KVM versions, +emulating specific Hyper-V version, ...), it is recommended to enable all +currently implemented Hyper-V enlightenments with the following exceptions: + +- ``hv-syndbg``, ``hv-passthrough``, ``hv-enforce-cpuid`` should not be enabled + in production configurations as these are debugging/development features. +- ``hv-reset`` can be avoided as modern Hyper-V versions don't expose it. +- ``hv-evmcs`` can (and should) be enabled on Intel CPUs only. While the feature + is only used in nested configurations (Hyper-V, WSL2), enabling it for regular + Windows guests should not have any negative effects. +- ``hv-no-nonarch-coresharing`` must only be enabled if vCPUs are properly pinned + so no non-architectural core sharing is possible. +- ``hv-vendor-id``, ``hv-version-id-build``, ``hv-version-id-major``, + ``hv-version-id-minor``, ``hv-version-id-spack``, ``hv-version-id-sbranch``, + ``hv-version-id-snumber`` can be left unchanged, guests are not supposed to + behave differently when different Hyper-V version is presented to them. +- ``hv-crash`` must only be enabled if the crash information is consumed via + QAPI by higher levels of the virtualization stack. Enabling this feature + effectively prevents Windows from creating dumps upon crashes. +- ``hv-reenlightenment`` can only be used on hardware which supports TSC + scaling or when guest migration is not needed. +- ``hv-spinlocks`` should be set to e.g. 0xfff when host CPUs are overcommited + (meaning there are other scheduled tasks or guests) and can be left unchanged + from the default value (0xffffffff) otherwise. +- ``hv-avic``/``hv-apicv`` should not be enabled if the hardware does not + support APIC virtualization (Intel APICv, AMD AVIC). Useful links ------------