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From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	borntraeger@de.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] thread-pool: Notify AIO context upon completion
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:17:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150702071740.GB31230@ad.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5594E43E.1040400@redhat.com>

On Thu, 07/02 09:11, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 02/07/2015 08:33, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > bdrv_flush() uses a loop like
> > 
> >     while (rwco.ret == NOT_DONE) {
> >         aio_poll(aio_context, true);
> >     }
> > 
> > to wait for thread pool, which may not get notified about the scheduled
> > BH right away, if there is no new event that wakes up a blocking
> > qemu_poll_ns().
> 
> That translates to "the dispatching optimization does not work". :)  I
> do not think that is the problem.

I must be missing something. I see a hang locally with some AioContext patches
I'm testing, and this does fix it.

I traced that qemu_bh_schedule does call aio_notify and event_notifier_set, so
it's curious. Still looking.

Fam

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-02  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-02  6:33 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] thread-pool: Notify AIO context upon completion Fam Zheng
2015-07-02  6:45 ` Christian Borntraeger
2015-07-02  7:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-02  7:17   ` Fam Zheng [this message]

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