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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/migration/uadk-compression.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst | 13 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/uadk-compression.rst b/docs/devel/migration/uadk-compression.rst index 3f73345dd5..64cadebd21 100644 --- a/docs/devel/migration/uadk-compression.rst +++ b/docs/devel/migration/uadk-compression.rst @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Make sure all these above kernel configurations are selected. Accelerator dev node permissions -------------------------------- -Harware accelerators(eg: HiSilicon Kunpeng Zip accelerator) gets registered to +Hardware accelerators (eg: HiSilicon Kunpeng Zip accelerator) gets registered to UADK and char devices are created in dev directory. In order to access resources on hardware accelerator devices, write permission should be provided to user. @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ How To Use UADK Compression In QEMU Migration Set ``migrate_set_parameter multifd-compression uadk`` Since UADK uses Shared Virtual Addressing(SVA) and device access virtual memory -directly it is possible that SMMUv3 may enounter page faults while walking the +directly it is possible that SMMUv3 may encounter page faults while walking the IO page tables. This may impact the performance. In order to mitigate this, please make sure to specify ``-mem-prealloc`` parameter to the destination VM boot parameters. diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst index d8725c2854..9463692c41 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tcg-plugins.rst @@ -61,11 +61,14 @@ translation event the plugin has an option to enumerate the instructions in a block of instructions and optionally register callbacks to some or all instructions when they are executed. -There is also a facility to add an inline event where code to -increment a counter can be directly inlined with the translation. -Currently only a simple increment is supported. This is not atomic so -can miss counts. If you want absolute precision you should use a -callback which can then ensure atomicity itself. +There is also a facility to add inline instructions doing various operations, +like adding or storing an immediate value. It is also possible to execute a +callback conditionally, with condition being evaluated inline. All those inline +operations are associated to a ``scoreboard``, which is a thread-local storage +automatically expanded when new cores/threads are created and that can be +accessed/modified in a thread-safe way without any lock needed. Combining inline +operations and conditional callbacks offer a more efficient way to instrument +binaries, compared to classic callbacks. Finally when QEMU exits all the registered *atexit* callbacks are invoked. |