From: Claudio Fontana <cfontana@suse.de>
To: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Laurent Vivier" <lvivier@redhat.com>,
"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Roman Bolshakov" <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Colin Xu <colin.xu@intel.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, haxm-team@intel.com,
Wenchao Wang <wenchao.wang@intel.com>,
Sunil Muthuswamy <sunilmut@microsoft.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cpu-timers, icount: new modules
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:33:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a41a63f-8397-64d3-0839-6990e2965339@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4de7352-87ba-df4c-fdcd-dab4028cef61@redhat.com>
On 7/29/20 12:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 29/07/20 10:48, Claudio Fontana wrote:
>>> If you want you can add to your accelerator ops series one for
>>> qemu_get_clock_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL), cpu_get_ticks() and
>>> qemu_start_warp_timer(), that would certainly work for me;
>>
>> The problem I see here is, as usual, one of meaning.
>>
>> Are qemu_get_clock_ns, cpu_get_ticks and qemu_start_warp_timer
>> accelerator-specific cpu interfaces?
>
> qemu_get_clock_ns(QEMU_CLOCK_VIRTUAL) is because it needs to take icount
> into account, likewise for cpu_get_ticks(); icount is TCG and qtest
> specific (with subtle differences between TCG makes icount optional and
> qtest makes it mandatory, so further separation of the two concepts is
> totally fine for me).
>
> qemu_start_warp_timer() also is accelerator-specific because, besides
> icount not being applicable to virtualizing accelerators, the warp timer
> is not needed for qtest, only for TCG.
>
>> Looking at their implementation, currently I don't think they are, what do you think?
>>
>> Should these be grouped together with
>>
>> create_vcpu_thread,
>> kick_vcpu_thread,
>> synchronize_cpu_state
>>
>> in the same interface?
>
> I think so.
>
> Paolo
>
One problem I noticed is that qemu_clock_get_ns is util/qemu-timer.c, which is tools _and_ softmmu,
while I tried to extract the softmmu-only timer code in softmmu/cpu-timers.c,
and the way I saw it, accelerator cpu interface was softmmu only..
Will pause and keep thinking about this.
Thanks,
Claudio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-30 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-29 9:35 [PATCH 0/3] QEMU cpus.c refactoring part1 Claudio Fontana
2020-06-29 9:35 ` [PATCH 1/3] softmmu: move softmmu only files from root Claudio Fontana
2020-07-03 17:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-29 9:35 ` [PATCH 2/3] cpu-throttle: new module, extracted from cpus.c Claudio Fontana
2020-06-29 9:35 ` [PATCH 3/3] cpu-timers, icount: new modules Claudio Fontana
2020-07-08 14:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-08 15:00 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-08 15:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-08 15:07 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-08 15:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-08 15:15 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-08 15:15 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-08 15:17 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-08 15:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-08 15:30 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-09 18:38 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-09 18:46 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-10 6:33 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-10 19:20 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-13 10:46 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-11 11:40 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-13 10:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2020-07-13 11:27 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-10 4:36 ` Thomas Huth
2020-07-10 22:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-11 9:14 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-11 9:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-11 11:49 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-11 12:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-11 12:48 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-29 8:48 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-29 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-30 16:33 ` Claudio Fontana [this message]
2020-07-30 22:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-31 10:59 ` Claudio Fontana
2020-07-02 6:27 ` [PATCH 0/3] QEMU cpus.c refactoring part1 Claudio Fontana
2020-07-03 17:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
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