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[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHR
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Marcelo Tosatti |
Subject: |
[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:55:04 -0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 09:33:00PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-02-15 21:04, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:58:53PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> On 2011-02-15 18:54, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Note: to be applied to uq/master.
> >>>
> >>> In icount mode, halt emulation should take into account the nearest event
> >>> when sleeping.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <address@hidden>
> >>> Reported-and-tested-by: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <address@hidden>
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
> >>> index 468544c..21c3eba 100644
> >>> --- a/cpus.c
> >>> +++ b/cpus.c
> >>> @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static void qemu_tcg_wait_io_event(void)
> >>> CPUState *env;
> >>>
> >>> while (all_cpu_threads_idle()) {
> >>> - qemu_cond_timedwait(tcg_halt_cond, &qemu_global_mutex, 1000);
> >>> + qemu_cond_timedwait(tcg_halt_cond, &qemu_global_mutex,
> >>> qemu_calculate_timeout());
> >>
> >> checkpatch.pl would complain here.
> >>
> >> More important: Paolo was proposing patches to eliminate all those fishy
> >> cond_wait timeouts. That's probably the better way to go. The timeouts
> >> only paper over missing signaling.
With icount VM_TIMER timeouts are converted to realtime. This is what i
understand qemu_calculate_timeout does.
Otherwise, yes, timeouts are papering over missing signaling.
> >>
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> qemu_mutex_unlock(&qemu_global_mutex);
> >>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> >>> index b436952..8ba7e9d 100644
> >>> --- a/vl.c
> >>> +++ b/vl.c
> >>> @@ -1335,7 +1335,7 @@ void main_loop_wait(int nonblocking)
> >>> if (nonblocking)
> >>> timeout = 0;
> >>> else {
> >>> - timeout = qemu_calculate_timeout();
> >>> + timeout = 1000;
> >>> qemu_bh_update_timeout(&timeout);
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>
> >> Isn't this path also relevant for !IOTHREAD? What's the impact of this
> >> change for that configuration?
> >
> > Timeout changes from 5s to 1s.
> >
>
> ... if (!vm_running).
>
> This patch does have side effects on !IOTHREAD. I doubt the above hunk
> can be correct.
>
> What kind of timeout is qemu_calculate_timeout returning?
You're right.
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD, Marcelo Tosatti, 2011/02/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD, Marcelo Tosatti, 2011/02/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD, Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD,
Marcelo Tosatti <=
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Marcelo Tosatti, 2011/02/15
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Jan Kiszka, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Paolo Bonzini, 2011/02/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] fix halt emulation with icount and CONFIG_IOTHREAD (v2), Marcelo Tosatti, 2011/02/16