On 04.12.2011, at 19:26, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> Extend the KVM Hypervisor to enable KICK_VCPU feature that allows
> a vcpu to kick the halted vcpu to continue with execution in PV ticket
> spinlock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <va...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
> index 5bfc21f..69bce21 100644
> --- a/target-i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ struct kvm_para_features {
> { KVM_CAP_NOP_IO_DELAY, KVM_FEATURE_NOP_IO_DELAY },
> { KVM_CAP_PV_MMU, KVM_FEATURE_MMU_OP },
> { KVM_CAP_ASYNC_PF, KVM_FEATURE_ASYNC_PF },
> + { KVM_CAP_KICK_VCPU, KVM_FEATURE_KICK_VCPU },
So this is handled in the kernel? Who enables the feature? Is it always on? Why
bother with it in user space at all then?
Alex
