Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 11/24/2010 08:18 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 11/24/2010 06:59 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> On 24.11.2010, at 11:52, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>>> Introduce exception-safe objects for calling system, vm, and vcpu 
>>> ioctls.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>
>>
>> FWIW, I still disagree with C++ and believe this code to be hardly 
>> readable.
>
> Take a look at http://repo.or.cz/w/qemupp.git

repo.or.cz seems to be down so:

http://git.qemu.org/qemupp.git/

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Start with test/test-mc146818a.cpp
>
> This test infrastructure is arguably a bad place to start because it 
> doesn't benefit really at all from C++.  The object hierarchy is 
> extremely simple and most of the time you're interfacing with legacy C 
> interfaces so a lot of effort is spent bridging those interfaces.
>
> OTOH, the device models interact very little with the external world 
> and the object model is complex is subtle ways.  I think C++ is a much 
> better fit there.
>
> In the above repo, I've converted the PIT, RTC, keyboard controller, 
> and have started working on the i440fx.  The i440fx is a lot of work 
> but it's also one of the more interesting devices to try and model 
> correctly.
>
> For all devices, there are very intensive unit tests that use 
> fuzzing.  I hope to have something postable for serious consideration 
> by the end of the year.
>
> BTW, given the ability to test programmatically, I ended up rewriting 
> a good bit of the PIT and RTC.  The way that the unit conversion is 
> handled right now in QEMU is a train wreck.  The new version is much 
> more accurate and as a consequence, the interrupt catch up logic is 
> much more precise.  There are also three different catch up algorithms 
> that are selectable at run time.
>
> This is all tested with a time simulation that can simulate random 
> amounts of drift over random periods of time.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>>
>> Alex
>>
>>
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