From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghukt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Suzuk
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V3 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDF6049.2030204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111207123330.GA32212@amt.cnet>
On 12/07/2011 02:33 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > Also Avi pointed that, logically kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate should
> > be called only in vcpu thread, so after further debugging, I noticed
> > that, setting vcpuN->mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE; is not
> > necessary.
> > I 'll remove that in the next patch. Thanks for pointing.
>
> In fact you don't need kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate either, only the
> new "kicked" flag.
If we have a kicked flag, it becomes necessary to live migrate it.
Maybe we can change KVM_GET_MP_STATE to fold the kicked flag into the mp
state (converting HALTED into RUNNABLE).
Also I think we can keep the kicked flag in vcpu->requests, no need for
new storage.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghukt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Xen <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V3 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:47:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EDF6049.2030204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111207123330.GA32212@amt.cnet>
On 12/07/2011 02:33 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >
> > Also Avi pointed that, logically kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate should
> > be called only in vcpu thread, so after further debugging, I noticed
> > that, setting vcpuN->mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE; is not
> > necessary.
> > I 'll remove that in the next patch. Thanks for pointing.
>
> In fact you don't need kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate either, only the
> new "kicked" flag.
If we have a kicked flag, it becomes necessary to live migrate it.
Maybe we can change KVM_GET_MP_STATE to fold the kicked flag into the mp
state (converting HALTED into RUNNABLE).
Also I think we can keep the kicked flag in vcpu->requests, no need for
new storage.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 8:59 [PATCH RFC V3 0/4] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 8:59 ` [PATCH RFC V3 1/4] debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs Raghavendra K T
2011-12-06 0:13 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 0:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 0:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 0:13 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-30 8:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 8:59 ` [PATCH RFC V3 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2011-12-01 11:11 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 11:11 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 19:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-01 19:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-01 19:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-02 12:29 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-02 12:29 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-02 12:29 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-04 18:06 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-04 18:06 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-04 18:06 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-06 16:49 ` [Xen-devel] " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 16:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 16:49 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-07 10:53 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 10:53 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-08 17:35 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-08 17:35 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-01 19:50 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 10:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 10:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 11:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 11:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 11:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 12:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 12:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 12:33 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 12:47 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-07 12:47 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 13:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 13:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-07 14:52 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 14:52 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-07 16:46 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:46 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:46 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:46 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-08 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-08 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-08 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-09 10:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-09 10:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-09 10:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-09 10:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:31 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:31 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-07 16:31 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 8:59 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 9:00 ` [PATCH RFC V3 3/4] kvm guest : Added configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 9:00 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 9:00 ` [PATCH RFC V3 4/4] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2011-11-30 9:00 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-06 3:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 3:27 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-12-06 6:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-06 6:54 ` Raghavendra K T
2011-12-06 6:54 ` Raghavendra K T
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