Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 13/13] vhost_net: start/stop guest notifiers properly

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 05:47:54PM +0200, William Dauchy wrote:
> On Sep02 18:07, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > 
> > commit a9f98bb5ebe6fb1869321dcc58e72041ae626ad8 vhost: multiqueue
> > support changed the order of stopping the device. Previously
> > vhost_dev_stop would disable backend and only afterwards, unset guest
> > notifiers. We now unset guest notifiers while vhost is still
> > active. This can lose interrupts causing guest networking to fail. In
> > particular, this has been observed during migration.
> > 
> > To adapt this, several other changes are needed:
> > - remove the hdev->started assertion in vhost.c since we may want to
> > start the guest notifiers before vhost starts and stop the guest
> > notifiers after vhost is stopped.
> > - introduce the vhost_net_set_vq_index() and call it before setting
> > guest notifiers. This is used to guarantee vhost_net has the correct
> > virtqueue index when setting guest notifiers.
> > 
> > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > Reported-by: "Zhangjie (HZ)" <zhangjie14@huawei.com>
> > Tested-by: William Dauchy <wdauchy@gmail.com>
> 
> please use:
> 
> Tested-by: William Dauchy <william@gandi.net>

It's a pull request so not easy to fix.
I'll do it like that next time.

> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> William