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[Qemu-devel] Re: scheduling of qemu threads
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David S. Ahern |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: scheduling of qemu threads |
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Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:50:46 -0600 |
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> David S. Ahern wrote:
>> Last week or so Anthony made a comment about qemu basically being single
>> threaded given its global mutex. What are the impacts to simultaneous
>> scheduling of qemu threads? As I understand it, qemu has a main thread,
>> a monitor thread, an IO thread and a thread for each vcpu. Can 2 or more
>> vcpu threads run concurrently? Can a vcpu thread and an IO thread run
>> concurrently? Does kvm alter the concurrency?
>>
>
> All threads run in lock-step except when a VCPU is running (via
> kvm_run). So a VCPU can run while the IO thread is active. Only one
> VCPU can execute IO at a given time though.
Not to be dense, but do you mean yes 2 or more vcpu threads can be run
at the same time? I ask because it does not make sense for them not to
be performance wise, but at the same time following the code from
kvm_main_loop_cpu() to kvm_run() I do not see the qemu_mutex unlocked
before the ioctl(). I only see it unlocked in kvm_main_loop_wait().
thanks,
david
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> david
>>
>
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