From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Liu Ping Fan <qemulist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock
Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 16:28:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5187BE1B.4070706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5187B8C4.3010207@siemens.com>
Il 06/05/2013 16:05, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>> Also, memory_region_find cannot know if it's returning a valid result,
>> and the callee cannot check it because the region may have disappeared
>> already when it is returned.
>
> Again, we hold the address space lock while checking the conditions. If
> a region does not supports BQL-free mode and BQL is not held, we have an
> error and return NULL (or bail out with a runtime error).
I've now posted my patches (which are really complementary to Ping
Fan's), and there's no address space lock. (here is a lock, but the
critical section is literally a handful of instructions and everything
is done with reference counting.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-06 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-25 2:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch out of big lock Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-25 2:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/7] qom: apply atomic on object's refcount Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-28 17:16 ` Richard Henderson
2012-11-29 8:35 ` liu ping fan
2012-11-25 2:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/7] hotplug: introduce qdev_unplug_complete() to remove device from views Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-25 2:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 3/7] pci: remove pci device from mem view when unplug Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-25 2:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 4/7] memory: introduce local lock for address space Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-25 2:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 5/7] memory: make mmio dispatch able to be out of biglock Liu Ping Fan
2013-05-06 11:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 11:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 11:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-11-25 2:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 6/7] memory: introduce tls context to trace nested mmio request issue Liu Ping Fan
2012-11-25 2:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 7/7] vcpu: push mmio dispatcher out of big lock Liu Ping Fan
2012-12-06 7:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/7] push mmio dispatch " liu ping fan
2013-05-02 16:58 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-02 17:14 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-03 7:37 ` liu ping fan
2013-05-03 8:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-04 9:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-04 10:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 8:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 8:40 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 10:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 10:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 10:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 11:11 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 11:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 11:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 12:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 13:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-05-06 14:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-05-06 14:28 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-05-06 1:46 ` liu ping fan
2013-05-06 1:57 ` liu ping fan
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