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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] APIC: Do not start zero-period timers


From: Asheesh Laroia
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND][PATCH] APIC: Do not start zero-period timers
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:29:51 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14)

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:

Jan Kiszka wrote:
The APIC timer must not start when the initial count is (still) zero.

This caused occasional stalls when booting secondary CPUs of Linux SMP
guests.


Applied.  Thanks.

Besides testing, I confirmed that this is what's done in the in-kernel APIC in KVM (which is also used by Xen). It seems really unfortunate to me that there are fixes in the in-kernel APIC that aren't in QEMU (and perhaps vice-versa). I wonder if there's any way to unify the two code bases?

Just a thought - if the code bases have similar textual content, one could start playing games like noticing when the kernel releases have APIC changes in KVM, and then mailing those as [PATCH] automatically to this list by detecting the commit log messages for them from kernel git.

And vice versa, even?

Even just a web page that shows the two implementations side by side, highlighting the diff, could probably be useful.

-- Asheesh.

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