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AMD SEV Optimizations Ready For Linux 6.17 Plus A 10x Improvement For Intel TDX


There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting.

Notable with the KVM x86 changes this cycle are some AMD SEV optimizations as well as continued work on Intel TDX. There are also other improvements like avoiding an unnecessary Write Back and Invalidate Cache (WBINVD) on all CPU cores when destroying a virtual machine." Over on the Intel TDX side is this pull that adds the KVM_TDX_TERMINATE_VM sub-ioctl for letting user-space mark a VM as dead.

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