Re: [Qemu-devel] global_mutex and multithread.

[Frederic Konrad <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>]

On 15/01/2015 13:56, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 15/01/2015 13:51, Frederic Konrad wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> As I understand the idea of Jan is to unlock the global_mutex during tcg
>> execution.
>> Is that right?
>> So that means it's currently not the case and we won't be able to run
>> two TCG
>> threads at the same time?
> Yes.
>
>> About the RCU, is there a lot of device which change the memory map?
> All PCI devices (when you program their BARs), but apart from that not
> much.  As a first approximation, the patches on github which use
> CPU_INTERRUPT_TLBFLUSH should work even for multiple TCG threads.

Ok that makes sense. Thanks!

Fred

PS: Any idea why listserver is dropped from listserver.greensocs.com?
>
> I'll clean them up a bit further so that CPU_INTERRUPT_TLBFLUSH is used
> for CPUs other than the running one; the running CPU instead uses
> tlb_flush directly.
>
> If anyone can sum up how cpu_resume_from_signal works, that would also
> be helpful.
>
> Paolo