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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Ying Fang <fangying1@huawei.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] async: fix hangs on weakly-ordered architectures
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 17:05:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13f3affe-0c08-476d-e85c-2a3826b5dc1c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <047d4327-8a79-ffc1-94fe-47355ed955c5@huawei.com>

On 08/04/20 11:12, Ying Fang wrote:
> On 2020/4/7 22:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> ARM machines and other weakly-ordered architectures have been suffering
>> for a long time from hangs in qemu-img and qemu-io.  For QEMU binaries
>> these are mitigated by the timers that sooner or later fire in the main
>> loop, but these will not happen for the tools and probably not with I/O
>> threads either.
>
> yes, we occasionally see qemu main thread hangs and VM stuck in in-shutdown
> state on aarch64 platform. So this could happen with I/O threads.

Thanks for confirming!  Have you managed to test the final version of
the patches?  It would be great to include test results.

Paolo



  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-07 14:07 [RFC PATCH 0/4] async: fix hangs on weakly-ordered architectures Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 14:07 ` [PATCH 1/5] atomics: convert to reStructuredText Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 16:49   ` Alex Bennée
2020-04-07 14:07 ` [PATCH 2/5] atomics: update documentation Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 15:25   ` Richard Henderson
2020-04-07 15:52     ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 14:07 ` [PATCH 3/5] rcu: do not mention atomic_mb_read/set in documentation Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 17:19   ` Richard Henderson
2020-04-07 14:07 ` [PATCH 4/5] aio-wait: delegate polling of main AioContext if BQL not held Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07 14:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] async: use explicit memory barriers Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-09  6:22   ` Ying Fang
2020-04-08  9:12 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] async: fix hangs on weakly-ordered architectures Ying Fang
2020-04-08 15:05   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-04-09  6:54     ` Ying Fang
2020-04-09 15:17 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-06 19:13 Paolo Bonzini
2020-04-07  9:10 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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