[PATCH V13 0/4] Paravirtualized ticket spinlocks for KVM host

Gleb Natapov
Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:04:01 -0000

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 02:18:32PM +0530, Raghavendra K T
wrote:
>
>  This series forms the kvm host part of paravirtual spinlock
>  based against kvm tree.
>
>  Please refer to https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/9/265 for
>  kvm guest and Xen, x86 part merged to -tip spinlocks.
>
>  Please note that:
>  kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi is a common patch
>  for both guest and host.
>
Thanks, applied. The patchset is not against kvm.git queue though, so I
had to fix one minor conflict manually.

>  Changes since V12:
>   fold the patch 3 into patch 2 for bisection. (Eric Northup)
>
> Raghavendra K T (3):
>   kvm uapi: Add KICK_CPU and PV_UNHALT definition to uapi
>   kvm hypervisor: Simplify kvm_for_each_vcpu with
>     kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic
>   Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used
>     for PV spinlock
>
> Srivatsa Vaddagiri (1):
>   kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercall to KVM hypervisor to support
>     pv-ticketlocks
>
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/cpuid.txt      |  4 ++++
>  Documentation/virtual/kvm/hypercalls.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h          |  5 +++++
>  arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm_para.h     |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c                     |  3 ++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c                     |  5 ++++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                       | 31
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h            |  1 +
>  8 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.11.7

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			Gleb.