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From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] KVM SMP support, early version
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To: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This is an early version of smp support in kvm that kinda works.
> It has some known problems that I am still tracking. For example,
> it does not reset very well. Also, initialization is a bit slow,
> probably because of the number of remote ioctl calls involved.
> But I believe Jan's patch to do a single ioctl can make it better.
>
> Normal operation seem to be going smooth for me. I can boot the
> machine and get it going decently. I'll keep working on the issues,
> but comments are welcome in the mean time.
>   

Can you shut down with that series? I'm trying to get SMP working with
S390X and it looks pretty good, apart from the VCPU threads having
cpu_single_env == NULL on SIGUSR1, which makes them not get out of their
guest context.

Alex