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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Using aio_poll for timer carrier threads
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:05:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520B4859.9050205@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130814085205.GB14914@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>

On 2013-08-14 10:52, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:13:03PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2013-08-13 15:45, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The details depend on your device, do you have a git repo I can look at
>>> to understand your device model?
>>
>> Pushed my hacks here:
>>
>> git://git.kiszka.org/qemu.git queues/rt.new3
> 
> Excellent, thanks!  Are you calling qemu_raise_irq() outside the global
> mutex and how is it protected?

By luck and via many exceptions, specifically by disabling of HPET
support (to avoid that it is involved in IRQ routing - or even used in
legacy mode) and by relying on the direct delivery to the kernel in KVM
mode. Yes, IRQ delivery is still a huge construction site for BQL-free
device models.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13  7:56 [Qemu-devel] Using aio_poll for timer carrier threads Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13 13:45 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-13 14:13   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-14  0:48     ` liu ping fan
2013-08-14  8:52     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14  9:05       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2013-08-14 11:35         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-08-14 12:32     ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-19 12:00       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-13 14:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-13 14:54   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-19 13:21     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-19 13:40       ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-19 14:09         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-19 13:58       ` Alex Bligh

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