Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for guest

[Liu, Jinsong]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:25:51PM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:55:52PM +0800, Liu, Jinsong wrote:
>>>>> From 4d5b83aba40ce0d421add9a41a6c591a8590a32e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
>>>>> 2001
>>>> From: Liu, Jinsong <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:08 +0800
>>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for
>>>> guest 
>>>> 
>>>> This patch emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for guest:
>>>> Enumerate tsc deadline timer capability by CPUID;
>>>> Enable tsc deadline timer mode by lapic MMIO;
>>>> Start tsc deadline timer by WRMSR;
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <address@hidden> ---
>>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |    2 +
>>>>  arch/x86/kvm/kvm_timer.h        |    2 +
>>>>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            |  123
>>>>  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- arch/x86/kvm/lapic.h
>>>>  |    3 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |   16 +++++-
>>>>  5 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> Looks good, please rebase against branch master of
>>> 
>>> git://github.com/avikivity/kvm.git
>> 
>> Rebased as attached.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jinsong
> 
> Please write a simple test case to arm a lapic timer via wrmsr (see
> https://github.com/avikivity/kvm-unit-tests).
> 
> Kernel patches have been applied, thanks.

Marcelo,

I'm not quite clear the purpose and usage of test case of the kvm-unit-tests.
Can you give me some hint?

Thanks,
Jinsong