From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: KVM in-kernel APIC update Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:29:25 +0300 Message-ID: <4614DD95.5000807@qumranet.com> References: <46128F80.BA47.005A.0@novell.com> <46135686.4090905@qumranet.com> <20070404201205.GC6070@elte.hu> <46149B7C.5020004@qumranet.com> <20070405103933.GA8936@elte.hu> <20070405105042.GA11779@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070405105042.GA11779-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > there's one thing i havent seen mentioned (maybe i missed it): the > ability to save/restore the in-kernel *PIC state. That would be required > for migration/snapshotting/etc. > That is a common requirement for all variants. Actually this is best implemented (assuming the in-kernel model) as moving the in-kernel *pic state to the qemu *pic implementation, and letting the qemu code serialize it normally. This is what we do for cpu registers. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV