Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: request : qemu-smp as target

[Jonas Maebe]

On 14 May 2005, at 14:16, Fabrice Bellard wrote:

> 1) Do the CPUs share the same translation cache ?
>
> 2) The first implementation would use a cycle counter to schedule  
> between CPUs. Is it interesting to go further and to use a host  
> thread for each guest CPU at the expense of more locking overhead ?

These two choices are closely related: if you use a host thread for  
each guest cpu, you almost need different translation caches, because  
otherwise it becomes very difficult to flush the translation cache.


Jonas