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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Xen-devel List <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>,
	Hongyang Yang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Buggy interaction of live migration and p2m updates
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:38:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <547C7D5F.3090009@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546E32BB.8090909@citrix.com>

On 20/11/14 18:28, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> 
> 1) Freeze the guests p2m during live migrate
> 2) Deep p2m dirty tracking
> 3) Eagerly check for p2m structure changes.
> 4) Request p2m structure change updates from the guest

> Proposed solution:  A combination of 2, 3 and 4.

Option 5: don't change anything.  PV guests and toolstacks are
well-behaved and ensure that p2m updates do not occur during domain save.

We have never supported migrating non-cooperative PV guests.

I'd be more interested fixing this for HVM guests.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-20 18:28 Buggy interaction of live migration and p2m updates Andrew Cooper
2014-11-21  5:41 ` Juergen Gross
2014-11-21 10:32   ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-27 15:14     ` Tim Deegan
2014-11-21  9:43 ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-21 10:24   ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-21 10:46     ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-21 11:07       ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-21 11:15         ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-21 11:20           ` Juergen Gross
2014-11-21 11:24             ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-21 12:15               ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-21 12:20                 ` Jürgen Groß
2014-11-21 10:43 ` Jan Beulich
2014-11-21 10:54   ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-27 15:00     ` Tim Deegan
2014-11-27 15:16       ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-27 15:28         ` Tim Deegan
2014-11-27 15:41           ` Andrew Cooper
2014-12-01 14:38 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-12-01 16:58   ` Andrew Cooper

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