From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v2)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:32:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4752C1E0.7080104@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712021917.28706.amit.shah@qumranet.com>
Amit Shah wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> This patch refactors the current hypercall infrastructure to better support
>> live migration and SMP. It eliminates the hypercall page by trapping the
>> UD exception that would occur if you used the wrong hypercall instruction
>> for the underlying architecture and replacing it with the right one lazily.
>>
>
> This doesn't work right for SVM. It keeps looping indefinitely; on a kvm_stat
> run, I get about 230,000 light vm exits per second, with the hypercall never
> returning to the guest.
>
I just tested kvm.git with (the new) hypercall.flat testcase. Seems to
work fine.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-02 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-15 17:54 [PATCH] Refactor hypercall infrastructure (v2) Anthony Liguori
2007-09-16 9:08 ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-02 13:47 ` [kvm-devel] " Amit Shah
2007-12-02 14:32 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-12-02 23:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-03 8:46 ` Amit Shah
2007-12-03 9:00 ` Avi Kivity
2007-12-03 11:30 ` Amit Shah
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