Re: [PULL 07/17] i386: move hyperv_vendor_id initialization to x86_cpu_realizefn()

[Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>]

On 12/17/20 11:53 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:33:57PM +0100, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> On 12/17/20 7:46 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> As a preparation to expanding Hyper-V CPU features early, move
>>> hyperv_vendor_id initialization to x86_cpu_realizefn(). Introduce
>>> x86_cpu_hyperv_realize() to not not pollute x86_cpu_realizefn()
>>> itself.
>>
>> this seems to fit very well the ongoing work on separating accelerator specific realize functions;
>>
>> related to the previous discussions about the class hierarchies,
>> do you think that we should have a separate class in target/i386/kvm/ for a hyperv variant of the kvm-cpu.c?
>>
>> Should it be a separate class or a subclass of "kvm-accel-x86_64-cpu" ?
> 
> I don't see how a separate QOM class for Hyper-V would be helpful
> here.  What would be the problem you are trying to solve in this
> case?

there is now a call to accelerator specific code x86_hyperv_cpu_realize just before cpu_exec_realize,
tying the generic target/i386/cpu.c code to kvm/hyperv-specific accel initialization.

if this is just a feature of the kvm accel, maybe I should just move all to kvm-cpu.c and that's it.

Thanks,

Claudio

> 
> Note that the Hyper-V features here are just a set of
> configurable VCPU features that appear on CPUID.  This is not a
> different kind of hypervisor and/or a different kind of
> accelerator.
>