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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] KVM: allow direct access to PMTimer port
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 15:31:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48395C07.1050005@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080525000036.710955693@localhost.localdomain>

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> There's not much point in exiting for pmtimer reads, since it runs at a
> fixed clock rate and its start value is undefined.
>   

On a migration farm with lots of different hardware, eventually all 
guests will have migrated and none of them will be able to use the 
passthrough port.

What about emulating pmtimer in the host kernel instead of userspace?  
It increases the hit from 1 exit to 3 exits, but they're much faster exits.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-25 12:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-24 23:43 [patch 0/4] C2 "emulation" Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-24 23:43 ` [patch 1/4] QEMU/KVM: self-disabling C2 emulation Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-24 23:43 ` [patch 2/4] libkvm: KVM_GET_PMTIMER ioctl support Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-24 23:43 ` [patch 3/4] QEMU/KVM: non-virtualized ACPI PMTimer support Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-25 10:18   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-25 16:32     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-26  8:16       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-29 17:56     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-31  7:52       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-25 10:19   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-25 17:39     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-26  8:23       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-24 23:43 ` [patch 4/4] KVM: allow direct access to PMTimer port Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-25 10:04   ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-25 16:09     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-25 12:31   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-25 16:12     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-05-26  8:03       ` Avi Kivity

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