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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: avi@redhat.com, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, bharata@in.ibm.com,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirt-spinlock implementation for KVM guests (Version 0)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:10:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100728221059.GA32739@phenom.dumpdata.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100726061150.GB21699@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:41:50AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> This patch-series implements paravirt-spinlock implementation for KVM guests,
> based heavily on Xen's implementation. I tried to refactor Xen's spinlock
> implementation to make it common for both Xen and KVM - but found that 
> few differences between Xen and KVM (Xen has the ability to block on a
> particular event/irq for example) _and_ the fact that the guest kernel 
> can be compiled to support both Xen and KVM hypervisors (CONFIG_XEN and
> CONFIG_KVM_GUEST can both be turned on) makes the "common" code a eye-sore.
> There will have to be:
> 
> 	if (xen) {
> 		...
> 	} else if (kvm) {
> 		..
> 	}
> 
> or possibly:
> 
> 	alternative(NOP, some_xen_specific_call, ....)

Why not utilize the pvops path?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-28 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-26  6:11 [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirt-spinlock implementation for KVM guests (Version 0) Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-07-26  6:13 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] Debugfs support for reading an array of u32-type integers Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-07-26  6:14 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] Add yield hypercall for KVM guests Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-07-26 17:19   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-28 14:55     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-08-02  8:40       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-03  5:16         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-08-03  5:33           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-08-02  8:32     ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 14:42       ` Ryan Harper
2010-08-02 14:50         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 15:08       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-26  6:15 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] Paravirtualized spinlock implementation " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-08-02  8:48   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-02 15:20     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-03  6:59       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-03 17:47         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-08-02  8:53   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-26  6:16 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] Add yield hypercall support in Qemu Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-07-26 17:18 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] Paravirt-spinlock implementation for KVM guests (Version 0) Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2010-07-28 14:47   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2010-07-28 22:10 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2010-07-28 22:42   ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-08-02  8:50 ` Avi Kivity

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