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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] memory: make dirty_memory[] accesses atomic
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:48:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324164817.GA9954@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <550FF483.8020603@redhat.com>

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:09:55PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/11/2014 13:44, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > This is an example of what I mean.
> > 
> > I'm not going to work on making TCG thread-safe in this series, and
> > there is no dangerous race condition in this code if we leave it as is.
> > 
> > But I'm not 100% sure of all cases, so I'll audit them again.
> 
> I looked at this again, and I agree that this series is not making
> anything worse.
> 
> We have to start somewhere, so I'm thinking of queuing this series for
> 2.4.  Making dirty bitmaps thread-safe with respect to memory hotplug
> can be done on top---especially since we already have a plan for that.

Hi Paolo,
Thanks for bringing this series up again.

I'm still happy with it.  Let me know if you'd like me to rebase.

Stefan

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-24 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-27 12:29 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] memory: make dirty_memory[] accesses atomic Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/6] bitmap: add atomic set functions Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 16:42   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-01 13:52     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/6] bitmap: add atomic test and clear Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 16:43   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-12-01 13:53     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/6] memory: use atomic ops for setting dirty memory bits Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 4/6] migration: move dirty bitmap sync to ram_addr.h Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 16:29   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-12-01 14:01     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-12-01 14:49       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 5/6] memory: replace cpu_physical_memory_reset_dirty() with test-and-clear Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 12:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 6/6] memory: make cpu_physical_memory_sync_dirty_bitmap() fully atomic Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-11-27 13:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/6] memory: make dirty_memory[] accesses atomic Peter Maydell
2014-11-28 12:44   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-03-23 11:09     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-24 16:48       ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]

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