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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock |
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Sat, 04 May 2013 11:47:46 +0200 |
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Il 03/05/2013 10:04, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
> We can't change the semantics of opaque as long as old_mmio / old_portio
> are around. But we need a flag anyway to indicate if a region is
> depending on BQL or not. Adding a separate "Object *owner" to
> MemoryRegion can serve both purposes. Then we define something like
>
> void memory_region_set_local_locking(MemoryRegion *mr,
> bool local_locking,
> Object *owner);
>
> to control the property (if local_locking is true, owner must be
> non-NULL, of course). That's quite similar to my old prototype here that
> had memory_region_set/clear_global_locking.
I think setting the owner can be done separately from enabling local
lock. For example, memory_region_find could also have a variant that
adds a ref to the owner. It would be very similar to what Ping Fan is
doing in the virtio-dataplane's HostMem data structure.
Paolo
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, liu ping fan, 2013/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Jan Kiszka, 2013/05/06
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/05/06