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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Cc: Umesh Deshpande <udeshpan@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, quintela@redhat.com,
	Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] lock to protect memslots
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:56:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4A229E.2040209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4A0AFA.70409@redhat.com>

On 08/15/2011 11:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 01:27 PM, Umesh Deshpande wrote:
>> Yes, the mru list patch would obviate the need of holding the ram_list
>> mutex in qemu_get_ram_ptr.
>
> Feel free to take it and complete it with locking then!
>
>> Also, I was planning to protect the whole migration thread with iothread
>> mutex, and ram_list mutex. (i.e. holding ram_list mutex while sleeping
>> between two iterations, when we release iothread mutex). This will
>> prevent the memslot block removal altogether during the migration. Do
>> you see any problem with this?
>
> No, indeed holding the ram_list mutex through all the migration "fixes"
> the problems with ram_lists removing during migration. I guess whoever
> will implement memory hotplug, will find a way around it. :)

BTW, now that I think of it, do you have ideas on how to do the 
migration thread do block migration?

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-16  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-11 15:32 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Separate thread for VM migration Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-11 15:32 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] separate " Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-11 16:18   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-11 17:36     ` Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-12  6:40       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-11 15:32 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] Making iothread block for migrate_cancel Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-11 15:32 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] lock to protect memslots Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-11 16:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-12  6:45     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-15  6:45       ` Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-15 14:10         ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-15  7:26       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-15 14:14         ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-15 20:27           ` Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-16  6:15             ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-16  7:56               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-08-11 15:32 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] Separate migration bitmap Umesh Deshpande
2011-08-11 16:23 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Separate thread for VM migration Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-11 18:25 ` Anthony Liguori

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