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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nested SVM and migration
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:44:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B82B473.4010906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B82B411.7020907@redhat.com>

On 02/22/2010 06:42 PM, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> On 02/21/2010 02:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 02/21/2010 02:10 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>
>>> It is doable but I still think its
>>> complicated to get this right. The simplest approach would be to
>>> disallow migration when the vcpu is running in guest mode.
>>
>> Agree, though I dislike the need to introduce a "force vmexit" ioctl.
>>
>
> How can this possibly work for guests which never exit SVM?  They can 
> never be migrated.

The force vmexit would generate an INTR #vmexit even if the INTR 
intercept was disabled and even if no INTR is pending.  However this was 
shot down since there was no equivalent vmx exit reason that we can 
except the guest to reasonably handle.

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


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-22 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-20 19:14 Nested SVM and migration Zachary Amsden
2010-02-20 20:18 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-20 23:26   ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-21 12:10     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-21 12:24       ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-21 12:41         ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-21 12:54           ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-21 13:09             ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-21 13:14               ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                 ` <4B8137E7.4030001@redhat.com>
     [not found]                   ` <20100221144352.GC26465@8bytes.org>
2010-02-22 16:54                     ` Zachary Amsden
     [not found]                     ` <4B814C41.7010105@redhat.com>
     [not found]                       ` <20100221155624.GD26465@8bytes.org>
2010-02-22 16:56                         ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 16:59                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-22 16:46               ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 17:07                 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-24 15:23               ` Joerg Roedel
2010-02-24 20:21                 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 16:42         ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 16:44           ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-02-22 17:00             ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 17:02               ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-22 17:07                 ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 17:11                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-22 17:24                     ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-22 16:39       ` Zachary Amsden
2010-02-21  7:23   ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-21  7:46     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-21  8:12       ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-21 12:18     ` Joerg Roedel

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