From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [6567] KVM: Get all cpuid values from function 2 (Amit Shah)
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:46:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49905DE1.7070808@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4990548C.60706@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Revision: 6567
>> http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6567
>> Author: aliguori
>> Date: 2009-02-09 15:50:36 +0000 (Mon, 09 Feb 2009)
>>
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> KVM: Get all cpuid values from function 2 (Amit Shah)
>>
>> cpuid function 2 can have multiple values to describe cache behaviour.
>> Loop till we have fetched all the values.
>>
>
> Note that if we are rescheduled on another cpu, or if another process
> calls cpuid 2 during the loop on the same cpu, this will break.
That's unfortunate. If cpuid values can differ for individual
processors, than I don't see a great way to avoid this problem in general.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-09 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-09 15:50 [Qemu-devel] [6567] KVM: Get all cpuid values from function 2 (Amit Shah) Anthony Liguori
2009-02-09 16:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-02-09 16:46 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-02-09 17:03 ` Amit Shah
2009-02-09 18:27 ` Avi Kivity
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