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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:44:22 -0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] qemu_flush_work for remote vcpu
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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

>
> I really dislike this. =C2=A0In general vcpu ioctls are used as component=
s of
> some work to be done, for example RMW of some state. =C2=A0In this case i=
t is
> meaningless to execute the ioctls remotely, you need to execute the entir=
e
> RMW remotely instead.
>

Why? The "M" part of RMW is executed in shared memory.
Only the R and W parts have any restrictions on where to be executed.

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