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From: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-9p: add unrealize handler
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:13:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006111327.2bd7fedd@bahia.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151006080914.GB19089@stefanha-thinkpad>

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:09:14 +0100
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:07:23AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > If the user tries to hot unplug a virtio-9p device, it seems to succeed but
> > in fact:
> > - virtio-9p coroutines thread pool and async queue are leaked
> > - QEMU crashes in virtio_vmstate_change() if the user tries to live migrate
> > 
> > This patch brings hot unplug support to virtio-9p-device. It fixes both
> > above issues.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c |   12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> What happens to in-flight I/O requests?  We cannot assume that the guest
> driver quiesces the device.
> 

We can assume that the guest has unmounted the 9p share otherwise migration
is blocked... is it possible we still have in-flight I/O requests in this
scenario ?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-06  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-05  9:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] virtio-9p: hotplug and migration support Greg Kurz
2015-10-05  9:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio-9p-coth: add release function and fix init error path Greg Kurz
2015-10-06  9:16   ` Greg Kurz
2015-10-05  9:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio-9p: add unrealize handler Greg Kurz
2015-10-06  8:09   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2015-10-06  9:13     ` Greg Kurz [this message]
2015-10-07  8:50     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2015-10-09  7:23       ` Greg Kurz
2015-10-09  7:36         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-09 10:54           ` Greg Kurz
2015-10-05  9:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] virtio-9p: add savem handlers Greg Kurz

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