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Bug #12961

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want support for AMD AVIC in bhyve

Added by Patrick Mooney over 3 years ago. Updated 9 months ago.

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Normal
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bhyve
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bhyve
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Description

AMD's Advanced Virtual Interrupt Controller (AVIC) offers similar functionality to APICv on Intel CPUs. It has the potential to drastically reduce VM exits for interrupt handling on the virtual APIC. We should wire up support for it on CPUs which possess that capability.

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Updated by Patrick Mooney 9 months ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to New
  • Assignee deleted (Patrick Mooney)

Further errata from AMD has suggested that use of AVIC is fraught with peril.

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