Re: [PATCH 0/3] Usermode side patches for in-kernel APIC

["Gregory Haskins" <ghaskins-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

>>> On Mon, May 7, 2007 at  6:53 AM, in message <463F0544.5070609-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote: 
> Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> Here is the patch series for the usermode side.  Note that the last patch is
>> pretty much experimental, and doesnt appear to be working the way I 
> intended.
>> Please advise if you know of the right way to do that.  It doesnt seem to 
> have
>> affected anything that I was able to test so far, so I don't know if it
>> matters or if there is a HALT race condition lurking in there until the 
> signal
>> handling is fixed.
>>
>> In any case, you can apply at least the first two and get "level- 1" support
>> running (in kernel LAPIC, QEMU based 8259/IOAPIC).
>>
>> Note that I abandoned my original patch that kicked off this whole party 
> where
>> I majorly re- worked QEMU.  I figured if that new qemu- irq stuff from QEMU
>> upstream was coming soon we could just go the #if USE_KVM route for now.  We
>> can make things more elegant when the new infrastructure is in place 
> somewhere
>> down the road.
>>
>> As with the kernel side changes, comments/feedback/bug- reports/patches
>> welcome.
>>
>>   
> 
> These are fine.  Of course, new userspace has to work with 2.6.22, so 
> you need to check feature availability.


Agreed.  I also need to make the code be able to dynamically disable the new stuff.   Ill hopefully get an update for this soon.

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