Although it gives `undefined symbol: qemu_plugin_scoreboard_free`. But
probably I messed something up...

On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 14:59 Elisha Hollander <just4now666...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh nice, I didn't know that
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024, 12:39 Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Elisha Hollander <just4now666...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Signed-off-by: Elisha Hollander <just4now666...@gmail.com>
>>
>> What is the use-case for this patch?
>>
>> If you are simply looking to slow the emulated system down please have a
>> look at:
>>
>>
>> https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/master/about/emulation.html#limit-instructions-per-second
>>
>> which uses the plugin system to limit the run rate and sleep if its
>> running too fast. The longer term goal is to deprecate the icount clock
>> alignment feature from the core code and leave icount to just provide
>> the deterministic execution needed for record/replay and reverse
>> debugging.
>>
>>
>> > ---
>> >  accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c      | 4 +---
>> >  accel/tcg/icount-common.c | 4 ++--
>> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
>> > index 8163295f34..4c2baf8ed4 100644
>> > --- a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
>> > +++ b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
>> > @@ -95,11 +95,10 @@ static void align_clocks(SyncClocks *sc, CPUState
>> *cpu)
>> >  static void print_delay(const SyncClocks *sc)
>> >  {
>> >      static float threshold_delay;
>> > -    static int64_t last_realtime_clock;
>> >      static int nb_prints;
>> >
>> >      if (icount_align_option &&
>> > -        sc->realtime_clock - last_realtime_clock >=
>> MAX_DELAY_PRINT_RATE &&
>> > +        sc->diff_clk >= MAX_DELAY_PRINT_RATE &&
>> >          nb_prints < MAX_NB_PRINTS) {
>> >          if ((-sc->diff_clk / (float)1000000000LL > threshold_delay) ||
>> >              (-sc->diff_clk / (float)1000000000LL <
>> > @@ -109,7 +108,6 @@ static void print_delay(const SyncClocks *sc)
>> >                          threshold_delay - 1,
>> >                          threshold_delay);
>> >              nb_prints++;
>> > -            last_realtime_clock = sc->realtime_clock;
>> >          }
>> >      }
>> >  }
>> > diff --git a/accel/tcg/icount-common.c b/accel/tcg/icount-common.c
>> > index 8d3d3a7e9d..f07f8baf4d 100644
>> > --- a/accel/tcg/icount-common.c
>> > +++ b/accel/tcg/icount-common.c
>> > @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@
>> >   * is TCG-specific, and does not need to be built for other accels.
>> >   */
>> >  static bool icount_sleep = true;
>> > -/* Arbitrarily pick 1MIPS as the minimum allowable speed.  */
>> > -#define MAX_ICOUNT_SHIFT 10
>> > +/* Arbitrarily pick the minimum allowable speed.  */
>> > +#define MAX_ICOUNT_SHIFT 30
>> >
>> >  /* Do not count executed instructions */
>> >  ICountMode use_icount = ICOUNT_DISABLED;
>>
>> --
>> Alex Bennée
>> Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
>>
>

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