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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] make interrupt injection lockless (almost)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:46:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A89270D.5030705@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250079442-5163-1-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com>

On 08/12/2009 03:17 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> kvm->irq_lock protects too much stuff, but still fail to protect
> everything it was design to protect (see ack notifiers call in pic). I
> want to make IRQ injection fast path as lockless as possible. This patch
> series removes kvm->irq_lock from irq injection path effectively making
> interrupt injection to lapic lockless (several kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic()
> may run in parallel), but access to lapic was never fully locked in the
> first place. VCPU could access lapic in parallel with interrupt injection.
> Patches 1/2 changes irq routing data structure to much more efficient one.
>    

Apart from my small comments it looks ready.  Please drop the pic reset 
changes to reduce risks.

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


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-12 12:17 [PATCH v3 0/8] make interrupt injection lockless (almost) Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] Do not call ack notifiers on PIC reset Gleb Natapov
2009-08-13  9:11   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-08-13  9:39     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] Change irq routing table to use gsi indexed array Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] Maintain back mapping from irqchip/pin to gsi Gleb Natapov
2009-08-17  9:43   ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] Move irq routing data structure to rcu locking Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] Move irq ack notifier list to arch independent code Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] Convert irq notifiers lists to RCU locking Gleb Natapov
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] Move IO APIC to its own lock Gleb Natapov
2009-08-13  9:13   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-08-13  9:48     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-13  9:49       ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-13 10:09         ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-13 10:44           ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-13 15:15             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-12 12:17 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] Drop kvm->irq_lock lock from irq injection path Gleb Natapov
2009-08-17  9:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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