From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andres@lagarcavilla.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Need help with fixing the Xen waitqueue feature
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:02:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111109070217.GA26154@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c51adac89cc2096d54a7347c1accb18e.squirrel@webmail.lagarcavilla.org>
On Tue, Nov 08, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> Olaf,
> are waitqueue's on the mem-event ring meant to be the way to deal with
> ring exhaustion? i.e. is this meant to go beyond a testing vehicle for
> waitqueue's?
Putting the guest to sleep when the ring is full is at least required
for p2m_mem_paging_drop_page(), so that the page gets informed about all
gfns from decrease_reservation.
> With the pager itself generating events, and foreign mappings generating
> events, you'll end up putting dom0 vcpu's in a waitqueue. This will
> basically deadlock the host.
Those vcpus can not go to sleep and my change handles that case.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-09 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-11-09 3:37 ` Need help with fixing the Xen waitqueue feature Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-09 7:02 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
[not found] <20111122150755.GA18727@aepfle.de>
2011-11-22 15:40 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-22 15:54 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-22 17:36 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 17:42 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-22 18:04 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 21:15 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 21:53 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 17:00 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-23 17:16 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 18:06 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-23 18:23 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 18:18 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 18:31 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-23 19:21 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 21:03 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-23 22:30 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-23 23:12 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-24 10:00 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-25 12:56 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-25 18:26 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-25 19:35 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-24 9:15 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-24 9:51 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-24 9:58 ` Keir Fraser
[not found] <20111108224414.83985CF73A@homiemail-mx7.g.dreamhost.com>
2011-11-09 3:52 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-09 7:09 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-09 21:21 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-22 14:34 ` George Dunlap
2011-11-09 21:30 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-09 22:11 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-10 4:29 ` Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2011-11-10 9:20 ` Jan Beulich
2011-11-10 9:26 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-10 10:18 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-10 12:05 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-08 21:20 Olaf Hering
2011-11-08 22:05 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-08 22:20 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-08 22:54 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-11 22:56 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-12 7:00 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-22 11:40 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 13:04 ` Keir Fraser
2011-11-22 13:54 ` Olaf Hering
2011-11-22 14:24 ` Keir Fraser
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