From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinuO-0003Hy-9C for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:35:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinuM-0002er-KW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:35:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinuM-0002dQ-C9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:35:22 -0400 Message-ID: <4FE7259F.4030100@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:35:11 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4FE4F56D.1020201@web.de> <4FE4F7F5.7030400@web.de> <20120623002259.GA13440@amt.cnet> <20120623090646.GA21908@amt.cnet> <4FE5AC75.1020504@web.de> <4FE71F71.7030908@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4FE71F71.7030908@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jan Kiszka Cc: Liu Ping Fan , kvm , qemu-devel , Marcelo Tosatti , Alexander Graf , liu ping fan , Anthony Liguori On 06/24/2012 05:08 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > As a first step, I will post a series later that gets rid of > kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer in the common vmexit path. If you defer this, I can think of two places that need to flush: - anything that accesses those memory areas (such as DMA to the framebuffer, or updating the display) - anything that modifies the memory map and possibly changes flushed addresses -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function