Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

2011-12-26 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/19/2011 04:11 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> > >> Backwards compatibility > > > > If we want backwards compatibility, we need more than just a simple feature > > check, no? Oh, you feed that into CPUID? That's nifty. Ok, so you behave > > like VMX/SVM do on real hardware - you always expose th

Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

2011-12-19 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2011-12-19 15:03, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 19.12.2011, at 14:59, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 12/19/2011 03:54 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> 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 halte

Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Graf
On 19.12.2011, at 14:59, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 12/19/2011 03:54 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> 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 >>> sp

Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

2011-12-19 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/19/2011 03:54 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > 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

Re: [PATCH 3/3] QEMU kvm/i386 : Adding KICK_VCPU capability support in i386 target.

2011-12-19 Thread Alexander Graf
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 > Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T > --- > diff --git a/t