Alexander Graf wrote: > On 02.02.2010, at 09:18, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> Let's start with the overall stats: >> >> 31 files changed, 274 insertions(+), 822 deletions(-) >> >> So this series drops far more than 500 lines of redundant code, moving >> qemu-kvm yet a bit closer to upstream. >> >> The other highlight is the simplification of synchronization between >> in-kernel and user space VCPU states. This area used to call a lot of >> problems in the past because it was tricky to get things right, >> specifically during the multi-threaded startup. The new approach pushes >> all the sync work around reset and vmsave/load into generic code, not >> only removing the burden from developers of, say, in-kernel APIC >> support, but also dropping most of our kvm-specific hooks, especially in >> the qemu-kvm tree. >> >> While I tested this on various VMs around, and things look good so far, >> I wouldn't be surprised if there are some regressions remaining, >> specifically in the non-x86 parts that I wasn't able to test or even >> build. Please have a careful look! > > The good news on that part is that apart from IA64, all other archs are > broken in qemu-kvm anyways, but work on upstream qemu. So moving towards > upstream definitely helps here. >
OK, then you probably want my corresponding uq/master series in order to test. Will try to roll them out ASAP. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
