[CentOS-virt] Live migration haswell, broadwell

Tue Nov 14 11:13:00 UTC 2017
T.Weyergraf <T.Weyergraf at virtfinity.de>

Hi

I wonder, if live migration (back and forth) is possible on mixed 
Haswell (Xeon V3) and Broadwell (Xeon V4) installations. The only 
notable difference between the two is apparently a working TSX 
implementation on V4, which got disabled on V3 due to bugs. The rest 
(VMCS-shadowing, posted interrupts) should not apply to our environment, 
as we do not run nested-vmx nor device-passthrough on our Xen servers.

Now, I found no sane way to disable TSX on a given system but I cannot 
rule out, that some (Linux-)software, such as Postgres will use them 
eventually. Also, I have a hard time trying to assess, if TSX can be 
disabled on V4 to enable seamless migration.

Any hint would be greately appreciated.