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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for hvm
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:06:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E67A478.9030505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC00F5384FCFC9499AF06F92E8B78A9E24C18D2696@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 09/07/2011 07:45 PM, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>
> >>  --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >>  +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >>  @@ -229,6 +229,8 @@
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE	(1<<11)
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_APICBASE_BASE		(0xfffff<<12)
> >>
> >>  +#define MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE		0x000006e0
> >>  +
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE		0x00000079
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV		0x0000008b
> >>
> >
> >  Need to add to msrs_to_save so live migration works.
> >
>
> 2 questions:
> 1). how about add to emulated_msrs instead of msrs_to_save? msrs_to_save modified at runtime and depend on capacibility of host cpu.

Look at kvm_init_msrs_list(), it does the checks.

> 2). do we need add code at qemu (kvm_get_msrs/ kvm_put_msrs) to expose MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE to userspace?
>

It should be automatic.  Better check it though that you can 
live-migrate a guest that uses TSC deadline.  Please add a testcase to 
kvm-unit-tests.git (there's x86/apic.c, can probably be added there easily).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for hvm
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:06:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E67A478.9030505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC00F5384FCFC9499AF06F92E8B78A9E24C18D2696@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 09/07/2011 07:45 PM, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>
> >>  --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >>  +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h
> >>  @@ -229,6 +229,8 @@
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_APICBASE_ENABLE	(1<<11)
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_APICBASE_BASE		(0xfffff<<12)
> >>
> >>  +#define MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE		0x000006e0
> >>  +
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE		0x00000079
> >>    #define MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV		0x0000008b
> >>
> >
> >  Need to add to msrs_to_save so live migration works.
> >
>
> 2 questions:
> 1). how about add to emulated_msrs instead of msrs_to_save? msrs_to_save modified at runtime and depend on capacibility of host cpu.

Look at kvm_init_msrs_list(), it does the checks.

> 2). do we need add code at qemu (kvm_get_msrs/ kvm_put_msrs) to expose MSR_IA32_TSCDEADLINE to userspace?
>

It should be automatic.  Better check it though that you can 
live-migrate a guest that uses TSC deadline.  Please add a testcase to 
kvm-unit-tests.git (there's x86/apic.c, can probably be added there easily).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17  4:19 [PATCH] KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for hvm Liu, Jinsong
2011-08-17  4:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-08-22  9:18 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-22  9:18   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-08-23 10:47   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-23 10:47     ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-29  6:47     ` Tian, Kevin
2011-08-29  6:47       ` [Qemu-devel] " Tian, Kevin
2011-09-06 11:21     ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-06 11:21       ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-08 17:12     ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-08 17:12       ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 12:56       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-09 12:56         ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-09 18:11         ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 18:11           ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 18:36           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-09 18:36             ` [Qemu-devel] " Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-09 18:47             ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 18:47               ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 18:21         ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-09 18:21           ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-06 11:18   ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-06 11:18     ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-06 11:26     ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 11:26       ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 16:45   ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-07 16:45     ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-07 17:06     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-07 17:06       ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-07 17:33       ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-09-07 17:33         ` [Qemu-devel] " Liu, Jinsong

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