From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 06/11] hw/ppc: Restrict KVM to various PPC machines
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 14:19:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e28dc7fe-3a78-6b24-0034-830909f71f8e@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDNIQiHG0nfKXNR8@yekko.fritz.box>
On 2/22/21 6:59 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 06:38:42PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Restrit KVM to the following PPC machines:
>> - 40p
>> - bamboo
>> - g3beige
>> - mac99
>> - mpc8544ds
>> - ppce500
>> - pseries
>> - sam460ex
>> - virtex-ml507
>
> Hrm.
>
> The reason this list is kind of surprising is because there are 3
> different "flavours" of KVM on ppc: KVM HV ("pseries" only), KVM PR
> (almost any combination, theoretically, but kind of buggy in
> practice), and the Book E specific KVM (Book-E systems with HV
> extensions only).
>
> But basically, qemu explicitly managing what accelerators are
> available for each machine seems the wrong way around to me. The
> approach we've generally taken is that qemu requests the specific
> features it needs of KVM, and KVM tells us whether it can supply those
> or not (which may involve selecting between one of the several
> flavours).
>
> That way we can extend KVM to cover more situations without needing
> corresponding changes in qemu every time.
OK thanks for the information. I'll wait the other patches
get reviewed (in particular the most important ones, 2 and
10) before respining including this information.
Regards,
Phil.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-22 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-19 17:38 [PATCH v2 00/11] hw/accel: Exit gracefully when accelerator is invalid Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] accel/kvm: Check MachineClass kvm_type() return value Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-22 17:41 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:50 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-22 18:04 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 23:33 ` David Gibson
2021-02-22 23:37 ` David Gibson
2021-02-23 10:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-23 11:23 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] hw/boards: Introduce machine_class_valid_for_accelerator() Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:34 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-22 17:46 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:59 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] hw/core: Restrict 'query-machines' to those supported by current accel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:42 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] hw/arm: Restrit KVM to the virt & versal machines Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 20:03 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] hw/mips: Restrict KVM to the malta & virt machines Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
[not found] ` <31a32613-2a61-7cd2-582a-4e6d10949436@flygoat.com>
2021-02-20 6:02 ` Huacai Chen
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/11] hw/ppc: Restrict KVM to various PPC machines Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 5:59 ` David Gibson
2021-02-22 13:19 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] hw/s390x: Explicit the s390-ccw-virtio machines support TCG and KVM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:37 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/11] hw/i386: Explicit x86 machines support all current accelerators Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] hw/xenpv: Restrict Xen Para-virtualized machine to Xen accelerator Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-19 18:20 ` Paul Durrant
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] hw/board: Only allow TCG accelerator by default Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-19 17:38 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] softmmu/vl: Exit gracefully when accelerator is not supported Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-22 17:46 ` Cornelia Huck
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