From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com,
david.vrabel@citrix.com, mingo@redhat.com,
Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com,
jdelvare@suse.com, linux@roeck-us.net, tglx@linutronix.de,
hpa@zytor.com, jeremy@goop.org, chrisw@sous-sol.org,
akataria@vmware.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 5/6] virt, sched: add cpu pinning to smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu()
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:26:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FE3EC1.7000800@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160401091507.GG3448@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
On 01/04/16 11:15, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:03:21AM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>> Maybe just make the vpin thing an option like:
>>>
>>> smp_call_on_cpu(int (*func)(void *), int phys_cpu);
>
>>> Also; is something like the vpin thing possible on KVM? because if we're
>>> going to expose it to generic code like this we had maybe look at wider
>>> support.
>>
>> It is necessary for dom0 under Xen. I don't think there is a need to do
>> this on KVM as a guest has no direct access to e.g. BIOS functions of
>> the real hardware and the host system needs no vcpu pinning. I'm not
>> sure about VMWare.
>
> OK, then can we WARN if .phys=1 and the platform doesn't support it?
>
Yes, good idea.
Juergen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-01 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-01 7:14 [PATCH v3 0/6] Support calling functions on dedicated physical cpu Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] xen: sync xen header Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a physical cpu Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-01 7:40 ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] dcdbas: make use of smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu() Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] hwmon: use smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu() for dell-smm i8k Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] virt, sched: add cpu pinning to smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu() Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 7:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-01 8:28 ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 8:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-01 9:03 ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-01 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-01 9:26 ` Juergen Gross [this message]
2016-04-01 7:14 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] xen: add xen_pin_vcpu() to support calling functions on a dedicated pcpu Juergen Gross
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