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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] "iothread: release iothread around aio_poll" causes random hangs at startup
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:51:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <556DC302.5090409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <556DBF87.2020908@de.ibm.com>



On 02/06/2015 16:36, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> commit a0710f7995f914e3044e5899bd8ff6c43c62f916
> Author:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 20 17:26:52 2015 +0100
> Commit:     Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> CommitDate: Tue Apr 28 15:36:08 2015 +0200
> 
>     iothread: release iothread around aio_poll
> 
> to cause a problem with hanging guests.
> 
> Having many guests all with a kernel/ramdisk (via -kernel) and
> several null block devices will result in hangs. All hanging 
> guests are in partition detection code waiting for an I/O to return
> so very early maybe even the first I/O.
> 
> Reverting that commit "fixes" the hangs.
> Any ideas?

Stefan, please revert it as I will not have time to look at it until
well into 2.4 soft freeze.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-02 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-02 14:36 [Qemu-devel] "iothread: release iothread around aio_poll" causes random hangs at startup Christian Borntraeger
2015-06-02 14:51 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-06-03  9:17   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-06-09  2:28 ` Fam Zheng
2015-06-09  9:01   ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-06-10  2:12     ` Fam Zheng
2015-06-10  9:18       ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-06-10  9:34         ` Fam Zheng
2015-06-10 10:31           ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-07-16 11:03           ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-07-16 11:20             ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-16 11:24               ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-07-16 11:37                 ` Paolo Bonzini

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