Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH RFC v1 0/3] Enable MTTCG on PPC64

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> writes:

> On 04/07/2017 08:07 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> On 04/07/2017 07:24 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>>> Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hello Nikunj,
>>>>
>>>> On 04/06/2017 12:22 PM, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>>>>> The series enables Multi-Threaded TCG on PPC64
>>>>>
>>>>> Patch 01: Use atomic_cmpxchg in store conditional
>>>>>       02: Handle first write to page during atomic operation
>>>>>       03: Generate memory barriers for sync/isync and load/store 
>>>>> conditional
>>>>>
>>>>> Patches are based on ppc-for-2.10
>>>>>
>>>>> Tested using following:
>>>>> ./ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER8 -vga none -nographic 
>>>>> -machine pseries,usb=off -m 2G  -smp 8,cores=8,threads=1 -accel 
>>>>> tcg,thread=multi  f23.img
>>>>
>>>> I tried it with a Ubuntu 16.04.2 guest using stress --cpu 8. It looked 
>>>> good : the CPU usage of QEMU reached 760% on the host.
>>>
>>> Cool.
>>>
>>>>> Todo:
>>>>> * Enable other machine types and PPC32.
>>>>
>>>> I am quite ignorant on the topic.
>>>> Have you looked at what it would take to emulate support of the HW
>>>> threads ?
>>>
>>> We would need to implement msgsndp (doorbell support for IPI between
>>> threads of same core)
>> 
>> ok. I get it. Thanks,
>> 
>>>> and the PowerNV machine ?
>>>
>>> Haven't tried it, should work. Just give a shot, let me know if you see 
>>> problems.
>> 
>> sure. pnv is still on 2.9, so I will rebase on 2.10, merge your 
>> patches  and tell you.
>
> The system seems to be spinning in skiboot in cpu_idle/relax when 
> starting the linux kernel. It finally boots, but it is rather long.
> David has merged enough to test if you want to give it a try.

I have got your powernv-ipmi-2.9 + ppc64 mttcg patches, and testing
them. I too saw delay during boot, but wasn't aware that its caused by
mttcg. I will have a look.

Regards
Nikunj