Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 10/11] xen/hvmlite: Boot secondary CPUs

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 02/04/2016 05:38 AM, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 01/02/16 15:38, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > HVMlite secondary VCPUs use baremetal bringup path (i.e. native_*
> > smp_ops) but need to do some preparation in PV code.
> If we always provided an emulated APIC could we use the native SMP
> bring-up instead?

We do use native SMP bringup now (wrapped in 
xen_hvm_cpu_up/xen_cpu_die/xen_play_dead)), I added a couple of PV APIC 
ops to help with that, most notably xen_wakeup_secondary_cpu().

-boris