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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com>
Cc: Karen Noel <knoel@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Juan Jose Quintela Carreira <quintela@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Orit Wasserman <owasserm@redhat.com>,
	"Michael R. Hines" <mrhines@us.ibm.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 09:58:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518CA88E.50002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <518C2135.306@hp.com>

Il 10/05/2013 00:20, Chegu Vinod ha scritto:
>>
>> Wow, I didn't know that either. Perhaps this must be causing the
>> entire QEMU process and its threads to seize up.
>>
>> It may be necessary to run the pinning command *outside* of QEMU's I/O
>> lock in a separate thread if it's really that much overhead.
> 
> Not really sure if the BQL is causing the freeze...but in general
> pinning of all memory when the guest is run is perhaps not the best
> choice for large enterprise class guests...i.e. its better to do it as
> part of the start of the guest.

If pinning is done in the setup phase, it should run outside the BQL.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-10  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-03 23:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/11] rdma: migration support Chegu Vinod
2013-05-09 17:20 ` Michael R. Hines
2013-05-09 22:20   ` Chegu Vinod
2013-05-09 22:45     ` Michael R. Hines
2013-06-02  4:09       ` Michael R. Hines
2013-06-06 23:51         ` Chegu Vinod
2013-06-07  5:38           ` Michael R. Hines
2013-05-10  7:58     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-24 19:00 mrhines
2013-04-24 21:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 23:48   ` Michael R. Hines

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