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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] interrupt preemption support
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:21:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FE9C67.4060703@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FE5346.BA47.005A.0-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> Note that as long as the apic code is in userspace, the sending side is 
>> also in userspace, so all the IPI related stuff doesn't touch the kernel.
>>     
>
>
> I see.  So really the entire approach I took (against the kernel code) is wrong, and I should focus on the QEMU side?
>   

Well, eventually we do want to have the apic in the kernel, and we do 
want inexpensive inter-vcpu (and driver->vcpu) interrupts.  But it seems 
that the simplest way to get things going is in qemu.

Note that it's not enough; there's the mmu to harden for smp and basic 
support for creating > 1 vcpus.

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


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-15 21:10 [PATCH] interrupt preemption support Gregory Haskins
     [not found] ` <45F97019.BA47.005A.0-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-16  7:03   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <45FA414C.1040703-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-16 12:17       ` Gregory Haskins
     [not found]         ` <45FA4489.BA47.005A.0-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-18  5:46           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <45FCD226.2010603-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-19 13:54               ` Gregory Haskins
     [not found]                 ` <45FE4FB1.BA47.005A.0-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-19 14:00                   ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                     ` <45FE9793.3060204-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-19 14:03                       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                         ` <45FE9827.5030200-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-19 14:09                           ` Gregory Haskins
     [not found]                             ` <45FE5346.BA47.005A.0-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-03-19 14:21                               ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-03-28 22:05                           ` Dor Laor

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