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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Ben-Ami Yassour1 <BENAMI@il.ibm.com>,
	weidong.han@intel.com, allen.m.kay@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] KVM/userspace: Device Assignment: Support for assigning PCI devices to guests
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:58:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D94A4C.3050105@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080923194302.GF6922@il.ibm.com>

Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:18:51PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>> Make sure you issue iopl() before any of the VCPU threads are
>> spawned.  Otherwise, you may be running into issues when something
>> other than VCPU-0 is doing PIO/MMIO and you haven't iopl()'d for
>> that thread.
>>     
>
> Yeah, we thought of that, but as far as I can recall this happened
> with a single VCPU. In any case, we'll look into it again.
>   

The io thread runs in a separate thread than the VCPU.  So if you were 
doing iopl(3) in the io thread (for instance, when called from 
machine_init), then the VCPU thread wouldn't necessarily have inherited 
the iopl().

You could also do it explicitly on vcpu thread construction.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Muli
>   


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-23 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-23 14:54 [V6] Userspace patches for PCI device assignment Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54 ` [PATCH 1/7] KVM/userspace: Device Assignment: Add ioctl wrappers needed for assigning devices Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54   ` [PATCH 2/7] qemu: Introduce pci_map_irq to get irq nr from pin number for a PCI device Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54     ` [PATCH 3/7] qemu: piix: Introduce functions to get pin number from irq and vice versa Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54       ` [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Include hw.h in qemu/hw/isa.h to fix compile issues Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54         ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM/userspace: Device Assignment: Support for assigning PCI devices to guests Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54           ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM/userspace: Build vtd.c for Intel IOMMU support Amit Shah
2008-09-23 14:54             ` [PATCH 7/7] KVM/userspace: Device Assignment: Support for hot plugging PCI devices Amit Shah
2008-09-23 16:32               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24  4:24                 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-23 16:31             ` [PATCH 6/7] KVM/userspace: Build vtd.c for Intel IOMMU support Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24  4:25               ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 15:08                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 16:30           ` [PATCH 5/7] KVM/userspace: Device Assignment: Support for assigning PCI devices to guests Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 18:32             ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-09-23 19:18               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 19:43                 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-09-23 19:58                   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-09-24  4:58             ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 15:07               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24 17:10                 ` Amit Shah
2008-09-25  4:54           ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-25  5:20             ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-26  1:34           ` Yang, Sheng
2008-09-23 16:13         ` [PATCH 4/7] qemu: Include hw.h in qemu/hw/isa.h to fix compile issues Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24  4:27           ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 11:35             ` Amit Shah
2008-09-24 14:59             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 16:13       ` [PATCH 3/7] qemu: piix: Introduce functions to get pin number from irq and vice versa Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24  4:28         ` Amit Shah
2008-09-23 16:12     ` [PATCH 2/7] qemu: Introduce pci_map_irq to get irq nr from pin number for a PCI device Anthony Liguori

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