Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Feb 9

Jan Kiszka
2010-02-09T08:52:27Z

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Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 09.02.2010, at 07:56, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> - rcuify/fine-grain qemu locks
>
> And this should be done either way, but is probably not a short-term goal.
>

Indeed. We won't get around this longterm as it is a scalability
bottleneck and a killer for RT guest load. We can't push everything into
the kernel. Qemu needs a smart plan how to gradually convert its CPU and
device model to fine-grained locking.

Jan

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