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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, mcgrof@suse.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roger.pau@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] xen/hvmlite: Boot secondary CPUs
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 08:51:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B35748.3010302@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B32A29.6050406@citrix.com>

On 02/04/2016 05:38 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 01/02/16 15:38, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> HVMlite secondary VCPUs use baremetal bringup path (i.e. native_*
>> smp_ops) but need to do some preparation in PV code.
> If we always provided an emulated APIC could we use the native SMP
> bring-up instead?

We do use native SMP bringup now (wrapped in 
xen_hvm_cpu_up/xen_cpu_die/xen_play_dead)), I added a couple of PV APIC 
ops to help with that, most notably xen_wakeup_secondary_cpu().

-boris

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-04 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 15:38 [PATCH v2 00/11] HVMlite domU support Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] xen/hvmlite: Import hvmlite-related Xen public interfaces Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:06   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] xen/hvmlite: Bootstrap HVMlite guest Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:39   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 17:19     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 18:55   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-03 20:11     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 23:40       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 19:54         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 20:57           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04 22:28             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 20:52     ` [Xen-devel] " Andrew Cooper
2016-02-03 23:59       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04  0:08         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-04  0:51         ` Andrew Cooper
2016-02-04 23:10           ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-05 22:02             ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-04-24 20:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 13:21     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 13:47       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 13:54         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 14:11           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 14:42             ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-25 15:22               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 15:48                 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-04-26 10:53                   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-25 17:24     ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] xen/hvmlite: Initialize HVMlite kernel Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-17 20:08   ` [Xen-devel] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] xen/hvmlite: Allow HVMlite guests delay initializing grant table Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:13   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:49     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-03 18:59   ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] xen/hvmlite: HVMlite guests always have PV devices Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] xen/hvmlite: Prepare cpu_initialize_context() routine for HVMlite SMP Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:16   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] xen/hvmlite: Initialize context for secondary VCPUs Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:21   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 16:58     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:07       ` David Vrabel
2016-02-04 12:58       ` Doug Goldstein
2016-02-04 19:08         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] xen/hvmlite: Extend APIC operations for HVMlite guests Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:04   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-04 12:14     ` Roger Pau Monné
2016-02-04 14:01       ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] xen/hvmlite: Use x86's default timer init " Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-02 16:27   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-02 17:01     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] xen/hvmlite: Boot secondary CPUs Boris Ostrovsky
2016-02-04 10:38   ` [Xen-devel] " David Vrabel
2016-02-04 13:51     ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2016-02-01 15:38 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] xen/hvmlite: Enable CPU on-/offlining Boris Ostrovsky

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