docs/system: Add recommendations to Hyper-V enlightenments doc

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 <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240917160051.2637594-5-vkuznets@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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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
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