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From: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: cam@cs.ualberta.ca, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Address translation - virt->phys->ram
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:46:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B83F86B.7070901@collabora.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B82D37B.2040906@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:

> I guess what you really want is some shm region between host and guess
> that you can use as ring buffer. Then you could run a timer on the host
> side to flush it or have some sort of callback when you urgently need to
> flush it manually.
> 
> The benefit here is that you can actually make use of multiple threads.
> There's no need to intercept the guest at all just because it wants to
> issue some GL operations.

Something like that should work. The problem right now is mostly the
'some sort of callback'. Im not sure there exists any mechanism for the
guests userspace to interrupt qemu directly when running under kvm...

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-23 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-22 13:59 [Qemu-devel] Address translation - virt->phys->ram Ian Molton
2010-02-22 14:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-22 16:46   ` Ian Molton
2010-02-22 16:52     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-02-22 17:47       ` Ian Molton
2010-02-22 18:56         ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-23 15:46           ` Ian Molton [this message]
2010-02-23 15:54             ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-23 16:21         ` Anthony Liguori

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