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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:57:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5B9F8B.3000306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D5B9CFC.1030503@siemens.com>

On 02/16/2011 10:46 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> What should this be good for? The iothread already kicks the vcpu if it
> wants to acquire the contended global mutex.

Assuming the VCPU is in the timedwait that Marcelo changed, the global 
mutex is free and the iothread will not kick the VCPU.

> And when the vcpu thread is
> in halt state, kicking it should change no other state.

Kicking the VCPU will start running it, if an interrupt request from the 
devices caused cpu_has_work to become true (and hence 
all_cpu_threads_idle to become false).

So, perhaps the correct fix is to kick the cpu in cpu_interrupt, and all 
I wrote about timeouts and timers is wrong.  My patch would band-aid it.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15 17:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-15 18:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-02-15 20:04   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-15 20:33     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-15 20:55       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-15 20:56         ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-16  8:27           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-02-16  9:32           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-02-16  9:46             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-16  9:57               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-02-16 10:04                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-16 10:27                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-02-16 10:34                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-16 11:05                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-02-17  3:15             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-02-17  8:27               ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-02-18 17:13                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-02-17  8:29               ` Jan Kiszka

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