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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Convert read-only users of vm_list to RCU
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:32:02 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110215123202.GA3731@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D512F3B.1080107@siemens.com>

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:55:39PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Only for walking the list of VMs, we do not need to hold the preemption
> disabling kvm_lock. Convert stat services, the cpufreq callback and
> mmu_shrink to RCU. For the latter, special care is required to
> synchronize its list_move_tail with kvm_destroy_vm.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

Jan,

What is the motivation for this change?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4D512EF7.8040409@siemens.com>
2011-02-08 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: Convert read-only users of vm_list to RCU Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 10:16   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 11:31     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 12:34       ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 12:45         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 12:56           ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 12:57             ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 13:14               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 13:19                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 13:47                   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 14:26                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 14:34                       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-10 14:47                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-10 14:55                           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-02-15 12:32   ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2011-02-15 14:08     ` Jan Kiszka

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