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kvm tools: Signal only one thread when injecting console interrupts

Message ID 1308173586-5344-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Sasha Levin June 15, 2011, 9:33 p.m. UTC
Send signals only to the thread which handles console injection
instead of the entire process.

This prevents every single thread from having to ignore SIGALRM
and will help scaling when running large amount of VCPU threads.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
---
 tools/kvm/kvm.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Comments

Asias He June 16, 2011, 12:31 a.m. UTC | #1
On 06/16/2011 05:33 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Send signals only to the thread which handles console injection
> instead of the entire process.
> 
> This prevents every single thread from having to ignore SIGALRM
> and will help scaling when running large amount of VCPU threads.
> 
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>


This one is much simpler than the sig_block patches and also resolves
the getaddrinfo() problem for me in virtio net thread.

Tested-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
Ingo Molnar June 16, 2011, 7:29 a.m. UTC | #2
* Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/16/2011 05:33 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > Send signals only to the thread which handles console injection
> > instead of the entire process.
> > 
> > This prevents every single thread from having to ignore SIGALRM
> > and will help scaling when running large amount of VCPU threads.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
> 
> 
> This one is much simpler than the sig_block patches and also resolves
> the getaddrinfo() problem for me in virtio net thread.
> 
> Tested-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>

yep, very nice!

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo
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Asias He June 24, 2011, 1:19 p.m. UTC | #3
On 06/16/2011 03:29 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/16/2011 05:33 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>> Send signals only to the thread which handles console injection
>>> instead of the entire process.
>>>
>>> This prevents every single thread from having to ignore SIGALRM
>>> and will help scaling when running large amount of VCPU threads.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
>>
>>
>> This one is much simpler than the sig_block patches and also resolves
>> the getaddrinfo() problem for me in virtio net thread.
>>
>> Tested-by: Asias He <asias.hejun@gmail.com>
> 
> yep, very nice!
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo
> 

Hi, Pekka

Ping. Mind to merge this patch?
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Patch

diff --git a/tools/kvm/kvm.c b/tools/kvm/kvm.c
index 2c56a79..22871db 100644
--- a/tools/kvm/kvm.c
+++ b/tools/kvm/kvm.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ 
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <time.h>
 #include <sys/eventfd.h>
+#include <asm/unistd.h>
 
 #define DEFINE_KVM_EXIT_REASON(reason) [reason] = #reason
 
@@ -529,8 +530,9 @@  void kvm__start_timer(struct kvm *kvm)
 
 	memset(&sev, 0, sizeof(struct sigevent));
 	sev.sigev_value.sival_int	= 0;
-	sev.sigev_notify		= SIGEV_SIGNAL;
+	sev.sigev_notify		= SIGEV_THREAD_ID;
 	sev.sigev_signo			= SIGALRM;
+	sev._sigev_un._tid		= syscall(__NR_gettid);
 
 	if (timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &sev, &kvm->timerid) < 0)
 		die("timer_create()");