Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.

[Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>]

Le Mercredi 31 Mai 2006 10:25, Xu, Anthony a écrit :
> From: Tristan Gingold
>
> >Sent: 2006年5月31日 16:07
> >To: Xu, Anthony; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel][PATCH] Enable SMP on VTI domain.
> >
> >Le Mercredi 31 Mai 2006 09:32, Xu, Anthony a écrit :
> >> This patch intends to enable SMP on VTI domain.
> >>
> >> This patch depends on previous three patches I sent out.
> >> 1. fixed a bug which causes Oops
> >> 2. fixed a small bug about VTLB
> >> 3. Add sal emulation to VTI domain
> >>
> >> This patch uses IPI to implement global purge.
> >>
> >> If you want to reproduce what I did, you may need to get the
> >> newest guest FIRMWARE.
> >
> >Good work!
> >
> >Two comments:
> >* could you postpone your patch until I resend my cpu hotplug patch ?
> >I have to modify the start-up ipi, which you are reusing.  (Should it be
> >common ?)
>
> It should be Ok, if it doesn't take long.
I expect to resent it within a few hours.

> >* I may be wrong, but why are you using a cpu/lid table ?
>
> Maybe I understand mistakenly,
> I'm using cpu/lid table to send IPI
>
> >I think Xen can
> >impose lid to the guest firmware.  Things will be a little simpler.
>
> I don't catch you, Could you explain in more detail?
I think lid_2_vcpu is almost useless.  Like in paravirtualized, vcpuid should 
be simply extracted from lid.

Tristan.

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