Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V3 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks

[Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/07/2011 02:33 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > Also Avi pointed that, logically kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate should
> > be called only in vcpu thread, so after further debugging, I noticed
> > that,  setting vcpuN->mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE; is not
> > necessary.
> > I 'll remove that in the next patch. Thanks for pointing.
>
> In fact you don't need kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_mpstate either, only the
> new "kicked" flag.

If we have a kicked flag, it becomes necessary to live migrate it.

Maybe we can change KVM_GET_MP_STATE to fold the kicked flag into the mp
state (converting HALTED into RUNNABLE).

Also I think we can keep the kicked flag in vcpu->requests, no need for
new storage.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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