From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Gregory Haskins" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Usermode side patches for in-kernel APIC Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 11:13:28 -0400 Message-ID: <463F09B8.BA47.005A.0@novell.com> References: <20070502214651.16845.19031.stgit@novell1.haskins.net> <463F0544.5070609@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: "Avi Kivity" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <463F0544.5070609-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline 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 >>> On Mon, May 7, 2007 at 6:53 AM, in message <463F0544.5070609-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>, Avi Kivity 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/