Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/21 DISGISED v6] acpi_piix4: add infrastructure to send CPU hot-plug GPE to guest

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 24.04.2013 18:03, schrieb Eduardo Habkost:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:27:11 +0200
>> Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> NACK
>>
>>
>>   gpe_cpu.sts isn't need to be migrated, since CPU hotpluging during
>>   migration just doesn't work, since destination QEMU has to be started
>>   with all present in guest CPUs (including hotplugged).
>>   i.e. src-qemu -smp 2,max-cpus=4; cpu-add id=2; dst-qemu -smp 3,max-cpus=4
>>   Destination QEMU will recreate the same gpe_cpu.sts=t'111' bitmap as
>>   on source by calling qemu_for_each_cpu(piix4_init_cpu_status, &s->gpe_cpu);
>>   since it has been started with 3 CPUs on command line.
>>
>> tested on ping pong migration, It works as expected without gpe_cpu.sts migrated.
>> I'll post v7 to this thread shortly.
> 
> Are we going to make the cpu-add command fail in case it gets called
> during migration?

I would rather suggest to throw an Error* on realize, if this can be
detected.

Andreas

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