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From: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com, ChenFan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>,
	Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@profitbricks.com>,
	"afaerber@suse.de" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 10/10] cpus: reclaim allocated vCPU objects
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 16:38:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141208163815.40bcb9e2@nial.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_XAYGgE3m-qXF3eYU1WzWdHzC4XbTwvepUex7xQiDkRA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:50:21 +0000
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 8 December 2014 at 10:28, Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Yes, it's a limitation now, but it is not the final implementation.
> > As to the QEMU side, the vcpu object in kernel is stateless, and a
> > reset operation will be done when we hot add a vcpu, so I think we
> > can kill the limitation, just choose a parked vcpu and reconfigure
> > it before we use it.
> 
> Why can't the kernel handle our just destroying the vcpu and
> later recreating it if necessary? That seems the more logical
> approach than trying to keep fds hanging around in userspace
> for reuse.

It's somewhat complex approach and it was suggested on KVM list to go
parking route. for more details see thread
 https://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg102839.html

> 
> -- PMM
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-08 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28  3:36 [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 00/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu and i386 cpu hot remove support Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 01/10] cpu: introduce CpuTopoInfo structure for argument simplification Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 02/10] qom/cpu: move register_vmstate to common CPUClass.realizefn Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 12:17   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  2:38     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 03/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 12:44   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  3:37     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 04/10] x86: add x86_cpu_unrealizefn() for cpu apic remove Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 13:58   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-11  3:06     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 05/10] i386: add cpu device_del support Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:11   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 06/10] qom cpu: rename variable 'cpu_added_notifier' to 'cpu_hotplug_notifier' Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 07/10] qom cpu: add UNPLUG cpu notify support Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 08/10] i386: implement pc interface cpu_common_unrealizefn() in qom/cpu.c Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 09/10] cpu hotplug: implement function cpu_status_write() for vcpu ejection Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:28   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 10/10] cpus: reclaim allocated vCPU objects Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:40   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  3:54     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11  9:35   ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-11  9:49     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11  9:53     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11 12:37       ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12  1:24         ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-12  8:09           ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12  9:53             ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-12 10:30               ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12 10:53               ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-12 13:52                 ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12 15:34                   ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-15  6:39                   ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-15 10:09                     ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-15 10:33                       ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-15 13:53                         ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-15 14:29                           ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-11 10:03     ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-12 14:15   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-15  5:03     ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08  9:16   ` Bharata B Rao
2014-12-08  9:26     ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-08 10:28       ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08 10:50         ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-08 15:38           ` Igor Mammedov [this message]
2014-12-08 16:38             ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-09  0:58               ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08 10:12     ` Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  1:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 00/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu and i386 cpu hot remove support Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  1:46 ` Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  7:57   ` Igor Mammedov

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