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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] continue_hypercall_on_cpu rework using tasklets

To: Juergen Gross <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] continue_hypercall_on_cpu rework using tasklets
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:57:27 +0000
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Looks great. You can rebase cpupools on top of it and both can go in after
4.0 is released.

 -- Keir

On 30/12/2009 13:46, "Juergen Gross" <juergen.gross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> attached is a patch to use tasklets for continue_hypercall_on_cpu instead of
> temporarily pinning the vcpu to the target physical cpu.
> 
> This is thought as base for cpupools as Keir requested to get rid of the
> "borrow cpu" stuff in my original solution.
> 
> Tested on x86_64 via a little test hypercall calling continue_hypercall_on_cpu
> with different target cpus.
> 
> Keir, is this solution the direction you wanted to go to?
> 
> 
> Juergen



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