From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
dario.faggioli@citrix.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, jbeulich@suse.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] xen: add hypercall option to temporarily pin a vcpu
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:55:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D58326.6050908@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1456822933-25041-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com>
On 01/03/16 09:02, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Some hardware (e.g. Dell studio 1555 laptops) require SMIs to be
> called on physical cpu 0 only. Linux drivers like dcdbas or i8k try
> to achieve this by pinning the running thread to cpu 0, but in Dom0
> this is not enough: the vcpu must be pinned to physical cpu 0 via
> Xen, too.
>
> Add a stable hypercall option SCHEDOP_pin_temp to the sched_op
> hypercall to achieve this. It is taking a physical cpu number as
> parameter. If pinning is possible (the calling domain has the
> privilege to make the call and the cpu is available in the domain's
> cpupool) the calling vcpu is pinned to the specified cpu. The old
> cpu affinity is saved. To undo the temporary pinning a cpu -1 is
> specified. This will restore the original cpu affinity for the vcpu.
I suggest SCHEDOP_pin_override as a name.
David
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 9:02 [PATCH v2 0/3] add hypercall option to temporarily pin a vcpu Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 9:02 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] xen: silence affinity messages on suspend/resume Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 11:11 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-01 9:02 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] xen: add hypercall option to temporarily pin a vcpu Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-01 11:55 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2016-03-01 11:58 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 12:15 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-01 14:02 ` George Dunlap
[not found] ` <56D58ABF02000078000D7C46@suse.com>
2016-03-01 11:58 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 15:52 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-01 15:55 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-01 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-02 7:14 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 9:27 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-02 11:19 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 11:49 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-02 12:12 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 15:34 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 16:03 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-03-02 17:15 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-02 17:21 ` Anshul Makkar
2016-03-03 5:31 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 9:02 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] libxc: do some retries in xc_cpupool_removecpu() for EBUSY case Juergen Gross
2016-03-01 11:58 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-01 11:59 ` Juergen Gross
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