[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 08/13] xen/pvticketlock: disable interrupts while blocking
On 09/07/2011 10:09 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/07/2011 07:52 PM, Don Zickus wrote: >> > >> > May I ask how? Detecting a back-to-back NMI? >> >> Pretty boring actually. Currently we execute an NMI handler until >> one of >> them returns handled. Then we stop. This may cause us to miss an >> NMI in >> the case of multiple NMIs at once. Now we are changing it to execute >> _all_ the handlers to make sure we didn't miss one. > > That's going to be pretty bad for kvm - those handlers become a lot > more expensive since they involve reading MSRs. How often are you going to get NMIs in a kvm guest? > Even worse if we start using NMIs as a wakeup for pv spinlocks as > provided by this patchset. Hm, I'm interested to know what you're thinking in more detail. Can you leave an NMI pending before you block in the same way you can with "sti;halt" with normal interrupts? I was thinking you might want to do something with monitor/mwait to implement the blocking/kick ops. (Handwave) J _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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