Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH RFC 0/4] Enable MTTCG on PowerPC

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

David Gibson <address@hidden> writes:

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> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:19:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:02 +0530, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> > The series is a first attempt at enabling Multi-Threaded TCG on PowerPC.
>> > Changes that were needed to enable PowerPC are pretty simple;
>> > 
>> > Patch 01: Take a iothread lock during hcall, as hcall can generate io 
>> > requests
>> >       02: For TCG, we were harcoding smt as 1, this gets rid of the 
>> > limitation
>> 
>> If we do this, we need to implement the shared SPRs properly and the
>> inter-thread doorbells...
>
> Exactly.  I think we want to get MTTCG working with multiple emulated
> cores first, then look into handling emulated hardware
> multi-threading.  2/4 suggests you are conflating the two, when
> they're really not related AFAICT.

Sure. Will do that in my next version.

Regards
Nikunj