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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: the >1Tb  block issue
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 04:57:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100519085722.GA4343@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF2D08E.7000505@redhat.com>

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:38:22PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Yes.  Why would Linux post overlapping requests? makes  
> 0xffffffff00000000 sense.
>
> There may be a guest bug in here too.  Christoph?

Overlapping writes are entirely fine from the guest POV, although they
should be rather unusual.  We can update a page and send it out again
when it gets redirtied while still out on the wire.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-19  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-18 15:52 the >1Tb block issue Michael Tokarev
2010-05-18 15:59 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-05-18 16:51 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-18 16:58   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-05-18 17:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-18 17:34   ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-18 17:38     ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-18 18:03       ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-18 18:09         ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-18 18:38           ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-18 18:43             ` Michael Tokarev
2010-05-19  8:57       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-05-19  9:03         ` Avi Kivity

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