From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] qemu-kvm: Cleanup and switch to upstream - The Season Final
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:36:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531133612.GD7400@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1306498737.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:19:04PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> With this series applied, we are finally at a level of almost zero
> redundancy between QEMU upstream and the qemu-kvm tree. The last major
> duplication to be removed is the original io-thread implementation and
> everything related to it:
> - locking
> - vcpu wakeup/kicking as well as suspend/resume
> - on-vcpu execution
> - io-thread loop
> - vcpu thread loop
>
> The approach taken here is similar to what was done to morph KVM core
> functions into upstream code: First all to be converted code is moved
> over into cpus.c, then qemu-kvm's functions are gradually changed and
> replaced with the upstream versions.
>
> This means that we have to enable CONFIG_IOTHREAD which is so far
> incompatible with qemu-kvm. This incompatibility causes a temporary
> breakage of the TCG mode early in the series, but it is healed again
> with the last patch applied.
>
> To make it clear: Even with all this applied, there is still a lot to
> do to turn upstream QEMU into the primary KVM platform. We need to
> - rework in-kernel IOAPIC/PIC/APIC/PIT support, namely
> - proper qdev modeling
> - new MSI hooking architecture (half-done)
> - VAPIC support (haven't looked at details yet, maybe just cleanups)
> - prepare device assignment for upstream (VFIO and/or KVM-based)
> - clean up remaining small deltas (including posix-aio-compat...)
> - get rid of legacy command line interfaces (e.g. via deprecation
> warning in release X and removal in X+n, n >= 1)
>
> But then we are really done and can all retire. ;)
>
> In the meantime, please review/merge these bits.
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-31 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-27 12:19 [PATCH 00/20] qemu-kvm: Cleanup and switch to upstream - The Season Final Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 01/20] qemu-kvm: Move thread-related code to cpus.c Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 02/20] qemu-kvm: Enable CONFIG_IOTHREAD Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 03/20] qemu-kvm: Switch to iothread version of qemu_notify_event Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 04/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream mutex and conds Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 05/20] qemu-kvm: Restrict validity of cpu_single_env Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 06/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream qemu_mutex_lock/unlock_iothread Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 07/20] qemu-kvm: Clean up kvm_update_interrupt_request Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29 16:16 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-29 16:37 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29 16:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 08/20] qemu-kvm: Replace kvm_update_interrupt_request with qemu_cpu_kick Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29 16:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-29 16:41 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29 16:44 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-29 17:55 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-30 15:10 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 09/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream run_on_cpu and flush_queued_work Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 10/20] qemu-kvm: Drop kvm_cond_wait Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 11/20] qemu-kvm: Replace kvm_cpu_is_stopped with cpu_is_stopped Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 12/20] qemu-kvm: Remove obsolete current_env Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 13/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream vcpu pause/resume Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 14/20] qemu-kvm: Move main loop setup code Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 15/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream's way of signaling debug stops Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 16/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream main loop Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 17/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream main loop initialization Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 18/20] qemu-kvm: Replace kvm_get_thread_id with qemu_get_thread_id Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 19/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream kvm vcpu initialization Jan Kiszka
2011-05-27 12:19 ` [PATCH 20/20] qemu-kvm: Use upstream vcpu loop Jan Kiszka
2011-05-29 16:24 ` [PATCH 00/20] qemu-kvm: Cleanup and switch to upstream - The Season Final Avi Kivity
2011-05-31 13:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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