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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	kvm-ppc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 3] RFC: creating a particular vcpu type
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:23:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B005EA.5000108@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A8B9C4.3010709@us.ibm.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> So the new ioctl() has the extra data and the old ioctl() is just a 
> compat interface which calls the new ioctl with a NULL extra data.  I 
> think this is the better approach if you're going this route.
>
> However, I still don't think that supporting asymmetric cores is 
> really useful at the moment and that introducing a per-vm arch ioctl 
> would be the best approach.

Note that kvm/x86 supports slightly asymmetric cores, in that the cpuid 
results can be different for different vcpus.  I can't judge how 
important this feature is for ppc, though.

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


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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-05  5:34 [PATCH 0 of 3] RFC: creating a particular vcpu type Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05  5:34 ` [PATCH 1 of 3] Pass an opaque parameter through kvm_vm_ioctl_vcpu_create() to kvm_arch_vcpu_create() Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05  5:34 ` [PATCH 2 of 3] Export kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu() to be called from architecture modules Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05  5:34 ` [PATCH 3 of 3] [POWERPC] Implement an ioctl that creates a vcpu of a particular type Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05 12:52   ` Christian Ehrhardt
     [not found]     ` <47A85C09.5070609-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 13:41       ` Carsten Otte
     [not found]         ` <47A86794.4020408-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 14:03           ` Carsten Otte
2008-02-05 15:13       ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05 16:44 ` [PATCH 0 of 3] RFC: creating a particular vcpu type Anthony Liguori
     [not found]   ` <47A89285.40802-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 17:53     ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05 18:05       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]         ` <47A8A582.5060502-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-05 19:23           ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-02-05 19:32             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-11  8:23               ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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