From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:41:17 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120116141117.GB6019@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F13F883.5090002@redhat.com>
* Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> [2012-01-16 12:14:27]:
> > One option is to make the kick hypercall available only when
> > yield_on_hlt=1?
>
> It's not a good idea to tie various options together. Features should
> be orthogonal.
>
> Can't we make it work? Just have different handling for
> KVM_REQ_PVLOCK_KICK (let 's rename it, and the hypercall, PV_UNHALT,
> since we can use it for non-locks too).
The problem case I was thinking of was when guest VCPU would have issued
HLT with interrupts disabled. I guess one option is to inject an NMI,
and have the guest kernel NMI handler recognize this and make
adjustments such that the vcpu avoids going back to HLT instruction.
Having another hypercall to do yield/sleep (rather than effecting that
via HLT) seems like an alternate clean solution here ..
- vatsa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-16 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 139+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-14 18:25 [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 1/5] debugfs: Add support to print u32 array in debugfs Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` [PATCH RFC V4 2/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 3:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 3:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 8:43 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 8:43 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 9:03 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 9:03 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 9:55 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 9:55 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 3/5] kvm guest : Added configuration support to enable debug information for KVM Guests Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` [PATCH RFC V4 4/5] kvm : pv-ticketlocks support for linux guests running on KVM hypervisor Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:26 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 3:12 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 3:12 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 7:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 7:25 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 9:05 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 9:05 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 23:49 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-17 11:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 11:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 11:33 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 11:33 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 1:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 1:34 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 13:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 13:54 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-18 21:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 21:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-24 14:08 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-24 14:08 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-24 18:51 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-24 18:51 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:57 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:57 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-24 19:01 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` [PATCH RFC V4 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-14 18:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 3:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 3:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 3:51 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 3:51 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 4:00 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 4:00 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 8:47 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 8:44 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 8:44 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:26 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 10:26 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 9:00 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 9:00 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 9:40 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 10:14 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 14:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri [this message]
2012-01-17 9:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 9:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 12:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 12:26 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 12:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 12:51 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 13:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:11 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:20 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 13:20 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 14:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 14:28 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 15:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 15:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-17 15:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-17 15:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-20 15:09 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-17 13:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 13:13 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 3:57 ` [PATCH RFC V4 0/5] kvm : Paravirt-spinlock support for KVM guests Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 3:57 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 6:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 6:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 8:55 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 8:55 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 23:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-16 23:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:48 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18 10:48 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 10:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 10:24 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 0:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-17 0:30 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2012-01-18 10:23 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18 10:23 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:43 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:43 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 13:49 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 13:49 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-16 18:48 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:48 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 14:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 14:20 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2012-01-16 14:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 14:23 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 18:38 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:38 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-16 18:42 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-16 18:42 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 17:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 17:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 17:39 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 17:39 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-17 18:36 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 18:36 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-17 21:57 ` Dave Hansen
2012-01-17 21:57 ` Dave Hansen
2012-01-18 2:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-18 2:27 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 8:55 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 8:55 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 16:35 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 17:45 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 17:45 ` Raghavendra K T
2012-01-25 19:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2012-01-25 19:05 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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