From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZAZkD-0003kN-76 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2015 04:21:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZAZk9-0003AH-FB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2015 04:21:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37604) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZAZk9-00039C-AV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2015 04:21:13 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 92BA4A0B50 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2015 08:21:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:20:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1435825251-674-10-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1435825251-674-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> References: <1435825251-674-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] kvm: Switch to unlocked MMIO List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: famz@redhat.com Do not take the BQL before dispatching MMIO requests of KVM VCPUs. Instead, address_space_rw will do it if necessary. This enables completely BQL-free MMIO handling in KVM mode for upcoming devices with fine-grained locking. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- kvm-all.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c index ad5ac5e..df57da0 100644 --- a/kvm-all.c +++ b/kvm-all.c @@ -1814,13 +1814,12 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu) break; case KVM_EXIT_MMIO: DPRINTF("handle_mmio\n"); - qemu_mutex_lock_iothread(); + /* Called outside BQL */ address_space_rw(&address_space_memory, run->mmio.phys_addr, attrs, run->mmio.data, run->mmio.len, run->mmio.is_write); - qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread(); ret = 0; break; case KVM_EXIT_IRQ_WINDOW_OPEN: -- 2.4.3