linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: send IPI to vcpu only when it's in guest mode

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Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:59:47 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@...h.technion.ac.il>
CC:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: send IPI to vcpu only when it's in guest
 mode

On 01/12/2011 11:54 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011, Xiao Guangrong wrote about "[PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: send IPI to vcpu only when it's in guest mode":
> >  We can interrupt the vcpu only when it's running in guest mode
> >  to reduce IPI
>
> Hi,
>
> I am afraid there's a risk of confusion between the new
>
> 	vcpu->mode = IN_GUEST_MODE;
>
> and the existing
>
> 	is_guest_mode()   (i.e., vcpu->arch.hflags&  HF_GUEST_MASK)
>
> The latter says that the virtual cpu is in guest mode (i.e., the guest used
> VMLAUNCH and is runnning a nested guest), while the former says that the
> physical CPU that this vcpu is currently being run on, is in guest mode - or
> in other words, this vcpu is currently running.
>
> I'm not sure what is the best way to resolve this potential for confusion.
> Maybe on of them is better renamed (e.g., instead of vcpu->mode = IN_GUEST_MODE
> have something like vcpu->running = NOW_RUNNING). Or maybe some good comments
> need to to be written to explain the situation.
>
> Actually, I just noticed that there's already a vcpu->guest_mode which you
> are apparently replacing, so the potential for confusion is already in the
> current code... I.e., in the current code, is_guest_mode(vcpu) does NOT check
> vcpu->guest_mode...
>

Right.  One is from the host's point of view, the other is from the 
guest's point of view.  I'll rename is_guest_mode() to is_nested_guest().

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