Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] guest SMP with in-kernel APIC

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

He, Qing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch set enables guest SMP when using in-kernel APIC. It is
> independent from the partial kernel apic SMP patch from Avi. We are
> posting it here for comments and possible merging with that patch. The
> patch set is based on:
> 	KVM: lapic5 branch: e9ddfaf472 (Remove dead code) with a patch
> that undoes 34735648ce (apic: implement init/sipi, work in progress),
> see the attachment in [PATCH 0/7].
> 	kvm-userspace: lapic5 branch: 206d1aa22f (qemu: prevent set
> wrong cr8 when using irqchip).
>
> btw, I can't find the cr8 patch in kvm-userspace from kvm-userspace.git,
> but it is in kvm-commits mailing list. Is there anything happened when
> kvm-userspace relocates on kernel.org or am I missing anything?
>
> The patch set is:
> 	[PATCH 0/7] :this post, and a temporary sipi/init undo patch
> 	[PATCH 1/7] is a preparation patch for userspace
> 	[PATCH 2/7] and [PATCH 3/7] are bug fixes for kernel
> 	[PATCH 4/7] modifies the PIC interrupt routing for SMP
> 	[PATCH 5/7] enables round robin for the apic lowest priority
> delivery
> 	[PATCH 6/7] is the main patch for SMP support. It handles
> SIPI/INIT in the kernel
> 	[PATCH 7/7] is the usermode part for SMP support, which disables
> userleve SIPI/INIT handling
>
>
> I have tested some situation, 32bit SMP Windows xp/srv2k3 and Linux
> 2.6.9/2.6.18 all works fine using in-kernel apics. User mode APICs also
> works fine. Test for other environments is ongoing.
>
> [PATCH 6/7] and [PATCH 7/7] have additional comments, please see the
> corresponding post.
>   

Applied all to lapic6 (with minor style modification).  Did not apply 
the bios change; will do it later through cmos nvram.

I will do some folding later on (will try out git rebase --interactive) 
and merge to master.

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