From: Ashish Kalra <Ashish.Kalra@amd.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86/sev: Per-node RMPOPT windows for >2TB systems
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2026 21:05:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1793921823.git.ashish.kalra@amd.com> (raw)
From: Ashish Kalra <ashish.kalra@amd.com>
RMPOPT_BASE is a per-core MSR whose optimization window covers at most 2 TB
of physical address space from its base. The merged RMPOPT series programs
every core with the same base (start of RAM), so on a machine with more
than 2 TB of RAM only the first 2 TB is ever RMP-check-skipped; everything
above 2 TB pays full RMP checks for the life of the system.
This series extends the optimization across all of physical memory on >2 TB
systems by giving each NUMA node's cores a 2 TB window placed over that
node's own local memory. A core overwhelmingly accesses its local node's
RAM, so spending each node's 2 TB budget on that memory puts the
optimization where the accesses land; whole-machine coverage is the union
of the per-node windows. The <=2 TB case is unchanged: the window search
returns start-of-RAM for every node, so all cores share one window.
Patch 1 generalizes the optimization scan to read each core's own
RMPOPT_BASE (base and window size straight from the MSR) and walk only
that window. No behavioral change while every core shares one window.
Patch 2 adds the per-node window selection and programming, and warms
every window before the interrupts-disabled fan-out.
HW-validated on a ~3 TB 2-socket NPS2 box: every node optimizes its own
local memory and all populated memory is covered.
Ashish Kalra (2):
x86/sev: Scan each core's own RMPOPT window
x86/sev: Add per-node RMPOPT windows for >2TB systems
arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 2 +
arch/x86/virt/svm/sev.c | 166 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
base-commit: 9f74092fda91ef93c2b07585785c1dc83cd7971f
--
2.43.0
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2026-11-09 21:05 Ashish Kalra [this message]
2026-11-09 21:05 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/sev: Scan each core's own RMPOPT window Ashish Kalra
2026-11-09 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/sev: Add per-node RMPOPT windows for >2TB systems Ashish Kalra
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