Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppcr: Avoid decrementer related kvm exits

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Graf
On 14.10.2011, at 07:19, David Gibson wrote: > In __cpu_ppc_store_decr(), we set up a regular timer used to trigger > decrementer interrupts. This is necessary to implement the decrementer > properly under TCG, but is unnecessary under KVM (true for both Book3S-PR > and Book3S-HV KVM variants),

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppcr: Avoid decrementer related kvm exits

2011-10-13 Thread David Gibson
In __cpu_ppc_store_decr(), we set up a regular timer used to trigger decrementer interrupts. This is necessary to implement the decrementer properly under TCG, but is unnecessary under KVM (true for both Book3S-PR and Book3S-HV KVM variants), because the kernel handles generating and delivering de