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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Uri Lublin <uri.lublin@qumranet.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/10] Add bdrv_flush_all()
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:37:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809101737.18560.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C7E579.5040702@us.ibm.com>

> I'm actually liking bdrv_flush_all() less and less.  If there are any
> outstanding IO requests, it will increase the down time associated with
> live migration.  I think we definitely need to add a live save handler
> that waits until there are no outstanding IO requests to converge.  I'm
> concerned though that it's not totally unreasonable to expect a guest to
> always have an IO request in flight.  That leads me to think that maybe
> we should be cancelling outstanding requests, and somehow saving their
> state?

That's not possible with the current code because the IO callbacks 
(particularly when you start involving the SCSI layer) are generated 
dynamically.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-10 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09 19:49 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/10] Refactor QEMUFile for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:25   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 14:38   ` [Qemu-devel] " Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:05     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:16     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-12 15:40   ` [Qemu-devel] " Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/10] Allow the monitor to be suspended during non-blocking op Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  6:52   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 10:05     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 11:11       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 11:14         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 15:36           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 15:40             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:58         ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-11 10:16           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-11 11:59             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-10 13:07     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:26     ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 10:01   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-10 13:11     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/10] Add bdrv_flush_all() Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:26   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 14:46     ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:19       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:32         ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 15:39         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 16:37         ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-09-12 15:43   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/10] Add dirty tracking for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 14:52   ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-10 14:56     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 15:01       ` Glauber Costa
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/10] Add network announce function Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 13:27   ` Chris Lalancette
2008-09-10 13:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 14:00     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/10] Introduce v3 of savevm protocol Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  7:09   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-09 19:49 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/10] Switch the memory savevm handler to be "live" Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 22:25   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-09 22:49     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10  7:17   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 13:10     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/10] Introduce a buffered QEMUFile wrapper Anthony Liguori
2008-09-12 15:16   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/10] Introduce the UI components for live migration Anthony Liguori
2008-09-09 19:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] TCP based " Anthony Liguori
2008-09-10 16:46   ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-10 16:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 12:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU Atsushi SAKAI
2008-09-11 13:06   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 13:30     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-09-11 14:12       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 15:32         ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-11 16:22           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-11 16:32             ` Avi Kivity

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