Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-06-24 16:46, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/24/2012 05:40 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-24 16:35, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 06/24/2012 05:08 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> As a first step, I will post a series later that gets rid of
>>>> kvm_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer in the common vmexit path.
>>>
>>> If you defer this, I can think of two places that need to flush:
>>> - anything that accesses those memory areas (such as DMA to the
>>> framebuffer, or updating the display)
>>
>> - anything that accesses related areas (in case of VGA: PIO accesses to
>> the control ports). I'm providing memory_region_set_flush_coalesced that
>> allows to flush on non-coalesced region accesses as well. Some PIO
>> accesses unfortunately still need open-coded
>> qemu_flush_coalesced_mmio_buffer as they do not use memory regions yet.
> 
> Framebuffer access will bypass the MemoryRegionOps callbacks, did you
> intend to hook those?

Are there really cases where the framebuffer is accessible both via MMIO
and RAM-like mappings at the same time? If so, the current flushing on
vmexit would help either as the direct mappings would not trigger exits.
Or what do you mean?

> 
> I'm not sure the problem is general enough to merit a check in our
> generic mmio dispatch code (granted, now it has a check in the vcpu exit
> path which is much worse).

The current situation is indeed much worse.

Jan

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