Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC V3 2/4] kvm hypervisor : Add a hypercallto KVM hypervisor to support pv-ticketlocks

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed Dec 07 2011 - 05:55:05 EST


On 12/06/2011 06:49 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:36:58PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> > On 12/02/2011 01:20 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> > >>Have you tested it on AMD machines? There are some differences in the
> > >>hypercall infrastructure there.
> > >
> > >Yes. 'll test on AMD machine and update on that.
> > >
> >
> > I tested the code on 64 bit Dual-Core AMD Opteron machine, and it is
> > working.
>
> I am not that familiar with how KVM does migration, but do you need any
> special flags in QEMU to when migrating a KVM-pv-spinlock enabled guest
> to another machine?

I don't think so. Sleeping is an ordinary HLT state which we already
migrate. There are no further states.

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