Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 3/9] cpu: Reclaim vCPU objects

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 11.03.2016 05:54, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> From: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> 
> In order to deal well with the kvm vcpus (which can not be removed without any
> protection), we do not close KVM vcpu fd, just record and mark it as stopped
> into a list, so that we can reuse it for the appending cpu hot-add request if
> possible. It is also the approach that kvm guys suggested:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/kvm@vger.kernel.org/msg102839.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Guihua <zhugh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>                [- Explicit CPU_REMOVE() from qemu_kvm/tcg_destroy_vcpu()
>                   isn't needed as it is done from cpu_exec_exit()
>                 - Use iothread mutex instead of global mutex during
>                   destroy
>                 - Don't cleanup vCPU object from vCPU thread context
>                   but leave it to the callers (device_add/device_del)]
> ---
>  cpus.c               | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/qom/cpu.h    | 10 +++++++++
>  include/sysemu/kvm.h |  1 +
>  kvm-all.c            | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kvm-stub.c           |  5 +++++
>  5 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>