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From: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
To: "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@intel.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
	xen-ia64-devel <xen-ia64-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC]degradation on IPF due to hypercall set irq
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:26:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C189C83C.4DCA%keir@xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51CFAB8CB6883745AE7B93B3E084EBE207DD53@pdsmsx412.ccr.corp.intel.com>




On 22/11/06 09:24, "Xu, Anthony" <anthony.xu@intel.com> wrote:

>>>> To clarify, by event/main loop I mean: Flush just before qemu blocks
>>>> (otherwise multicall can be held for unbounded time, unless we set a
>>>> batching timeout which hopefully we can avoid needing to do).
> 
> Why otherwise multicall can be held for unbounded time?

Qemu only wakes up for device-model accesses. We don't know when the next of
those will be. So we should flush multicalls before the potentially blocking
select().

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-22  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-22  9:24 [RFC]degradation on IPF due to hypercall set irq Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22  9:26 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-24 15:53 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-24 14:45 [Xen-devel][RFC]degradation " Xu, Anthony
2006-11-24 15:28 ` [RFC]degradation " Keir Fraser
2006-11-24  7:08 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-24  9:46 ` Keir Fraser
2006-11-23  1:51 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22 10:23 [Xen-devel][RFC]degradation " Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22 10:27 ` [RFC]degradation " Keir Fraser
2006-11-22  9:38 [Xen-devel][RFC]degradation " Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22  9:47 ` [RFC]degradation " Keir Fraser
2006-11-22  8:16 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22  9:21 ` Keir Fraser
2006-11-22  7:55 [Xen-devel][RFC]degradation " Keir Fraser
2006-11-22  7:58 ` [RFC]degradation " Keir Fraser
2006-11-22  7:43 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22  3:33 Xu, Anthony
2006-11-22  7:06 ` Keir Fraser

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