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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using aio_poll for timer carrier threads
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using aio_poll for timer carrier threads |
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Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:05:29 +0200 |
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On 2013-08-14 10:52, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:13:03PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2013-08-13 15:45, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> The details depend on your device, do you have a git repo I can look at
>>> to understand your device model?
>>
>> Pushed my hacks here:
>>
>> git://git.kiszka.org/qemu.git queues/rt.new3
>
> Excellent, thanks! Are you calling qemu_raise_irq() outside the global
> mutex and how is it protected?
By luck and via many exceptions, specifically by disabling of HPET
support (to avoid that it is involved in IRQ routing - or even used in
legacy mode) and by relying on the direct delivery to the kernel in KVM
mode. Yes, IRQ delivery is still a huge construction site for BQL-free
device models.
Jan
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Using aio_poll for timer carrier threads, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/08/13