From: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Stuart Brady <stuart.brady@gmail.com>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
TeLeMan <geleman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] tcg/interpreter: Add TCG + interpreter for bytecode (virtual machine)
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:49:47 +0400 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1109181449190.2215@linmac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAu8pHvFvFYN8+vtkHXk79CS9A2TBwshZ8aREjZJaWHaY96Orw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > these patches add a new code generator (TCG target) to qemu.
> >
> > Unlike other tcg target code generators, this one does not generate
> > machine code for some cpu. It generates machine independent bytecode
> > which is interpreted later. That's why I called it TCI (tiny code
> > interpreter).
> >
> > I wrote most of the code two years ago and included feedback and
> > contributions from several QEMU developers, notably TeleMan,
> > Stuart Brady, Blue Swirl and Malc. See the history here:
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2009-09/msg01710.html
> >
> > Since that time, I used TCI regularly, added small fixes and improvements
> > and rebased it to latest QEMU. Some versions were tested using
> > ARM (emulated and real), PowerPC (emulated) and MIPS (emulated) hosts,
> > but normally I run it on i386 and x86_64 hosts.
> >
> > I'd appreciate to see TCI in QEMU 1.0.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stefan Weil
> >
> > The patches 2 and 4 are optional, patch 8 is only needed for running
> > TCI on a PowerPC host.
>
> I think patches 1 to 4 and 8 could be applied soon as they are now,
> they should benefit plain TCG too. I had some comments to other
> patches, but otherwise everything looks great.
Hold the horses untill Stefan settles the licensing issues.
>
> Comparisons to other bytecode interpreters (for example Python) would
> be interesting, maybe there are also tricks that can be reused.
>
> > [PATCH 1/8] tcg: Declare TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS in tcg.h
> > [PATCH 2/8] tcg: Don't declare TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS in tcg-target.h
> > [PATCH 3/8] tcg: Add forward declarations for local functions
> > [PATCH 4/8] tcg: Add some assertions
> > [PATCH 5/8] tcg: Add interpreter for bytecode
> > [PATCH 6/8] tcg: Add bytecode generator for tcg interpreter
> > [PATCH 7/8] tcg: Add tcg interpreter to configure / make
> > [PATCH 8/8] ppc: Support tcg interpreter on ppc hosts
> >
> >
>
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 19:59 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] tcg/interpreter: Add TCG + interpreter for bytecode (virtual machine) Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] tcg: Declare TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS in tcg.h Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] tcg: Don't declare TCG_TARGET_REG_BITS in tcg-target.h Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] tcg: Add forward declarations for local functions Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 21:40 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] tcg: Add some assertions Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] tcg: Add interpreter for bytecode Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 4:03 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-18 5:49 ` Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 7:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-18 17:54 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-19 6:52 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-19 11:56 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-19 14:48 ` Andi Kleen
2011-09-18 10:18 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-19 16:43 ` Richard Henderson
2011-09-19 20:24 ` Stuart Brady
2011-10-16 21:54 ` Stuart Brady
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] tcg: Add bytecode generator for tcg interpreter Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 10:03 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-19 22:28 ` Stuart Brady
2011-10-01 16:54 ` Andreas Färber
2011-10-01 21:25 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-09 16:19 ` Andreas Färber
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] tcg: Add tcg interpreter to configure / make Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 9:37 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-18 10:14 ` Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] ppc: Support tcg interpreter on ppc hosts Stefan Weil
2011-09-17 21:31 ` Peter Maydell
2011-09-17 21:33 ` Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 10:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] tcg/interpreter: Add TCG + interpreter for bytecode (virtual machine) Blue Swirl
2011-09-18 10:49 ` malc [this message]
2011-09-18 12:12 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-18 12:46 ` malc
2011-09-18 13:00 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-18 13:13 ` malc
2011-09-18 13:26 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-25 20:37 ` Stefan Weil
2011-10-01 12:02 ` Blue Swirl
2011-09-18 15:02 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-09-18 15:13 ` Stefan Weil
2011-09-18 16:39 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-09-18 20:15 ` Stefan Weil
2011-09-19 15:14 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-09-19 8:40 ` David Gilbert
2011-09-19 10:20 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-09-19 10:27 ` David Gilbert
2011-09-18 18:02 ` Avi Kivity
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