From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] kvm tools: Fix virtio console hangs by removing IRQ injection for tx path Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 20:29:28 +0300 Message-ID: <1304875768.12850.5.camel@lappy> References: <1304860165-28810-1-git-send-email-asias.hejun@gmail.com> <1304860165-28810-5-git-send-email-asias.hejun@gmail.com> <1304874329.10621.45.camel@jaguar> <1304875308.12850.1.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Asias He , Cyrill Gorcunov , Ingo Molnar , Prasad Joshi , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Pekka Enberg Return-path: Received: from mail-ww0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:38650 "EHLO mail-ww0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753921Ab1EHR3p (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 May 2011 13:29:45 -0400 Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so5041456wwa.1 for ; Sun, 08 May 2011 10:29:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 20:28 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > I'm seeing no more hangs, but why enable it unconditionally? > > Maybe enable it by default, but we shouldn't force the activation of > > virtio modules if the user doesn't want them. > > I meant enabling the device on PCI bus like we did before. Thats what I've meant too. virtio-console is the only device which got initialized even if it wasn't requested (even when '-c serial' was passed specifically). -- Sasha.