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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "Martin Kejík" <kejda@centrum.cz>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm + kqemu enabled at the same time
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:21:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49080EF4.4090307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49078CF8.9070704@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Martin Kejík wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I've compiled the KVM enabled QEMU with support for both KVM and 
>> KQEMU. Both modules loaded and
>> QEMU running saying "kvm: enabled" and "kqemu: enabled for user code".
>>
>> How does this work?? What does QEMU really do in this situation when 
>> we look closer to CPU??
>>   
>
> You're using both accelerators at the same time and getting 2x 
> acceleration.  It will actually go faster than native now :-)
>
> Seriously, it's working based on sheer luck.  If you look at the 
> cpu_exec() loop (which is the core execution loop in QEMU, you'll see):

Is cpu_exec() actually executed with kvm?  I think we fork vcpu threads 
and jump to our own little main loop before that.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 21:20 kvm + kqemu enabled at the same time Martin Kejík
2008-10-28 22:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-29  7:21   ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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