Re: [PATCH RFC V6 1/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks

2012-04-27 Thread Raghavendra K T
On 04/24/2012 03:29 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:29:47PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri KVM_HC_KICK_CPU allows the calling vcpu to kick another vcpu out of halt state. The presence of these hypercalls is indicated to guest via KVM_FEATURE_PV_UNHALT

Re: [PATCH RFC V6 5/5] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock

2012-04-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/23/2012 05:00 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote: > From: Raghavendra K T ... > --- /dev/null > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt > @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ > +KVM Hypercalls Documentation > +=== > +Template for documentation is > +The documenenation for hypercalls shoul

Re: [PATCH RFC V6 1/5] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks

2012-04-27 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:15:35PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > On 04/24/2012 03:29 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:29:47PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > >>From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri > >> > >>KVM_HC_KICK_CPU allows the calling vcpu to kick another vcpu out of halt > >>stat