Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-06 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
David Gibson writes: > [ Unknown signature status ] > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: >> > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. >> > Changes that were needed

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-06 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. > > Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; > > > > Patch 01: Tak

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 13:09 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > > > > > > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on > > > PowerPC. > > > Changes that were needed to enable

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 09/02/2016 09:57 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 02.09.2016 08:43, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >> On 09/02/2016 08:32 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: >>> The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. >>> Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; >>> >>> Patch

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Thomas Huth
On 02.09.2016 08:43, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > On 09/02/2016 08:32 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: >> The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. >> Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; >> >> Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: >> The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. >> Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; >> >> Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. > Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; > > Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall can generate io requests >   02: For

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-02 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
Cédric Le Goater writes: > On 09/02/2016 08:32 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: >> The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. >> Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; >> >> Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall can generate io >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-01 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 09/02/2016 08:32 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote: > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. > Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; > > Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall can generate io requests > 02: For TCG, we wer

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

2016-09-01 Thread Nikunj A Dadhania
The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC. Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple; Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall can generate io requests 02: For TCG, we were harcoding smt as 1, this gets rid of the limitation