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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: alex.bennee@linaro.org, stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] Move notdirty handling to cputlb
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:13:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <847b6bd0-5e52-52db-a0db-36a031d4f1f2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190918052641.21300-1-richard.henderson@linaro.org>

On 18/09/19 07:26, Richard Henderson wrote:
> RFC because this doesn't work, and I don't quite understand why.
> The only failing test is {i386,x86_64} pxe-test -- the other
> migration tests that use notdirty all pass.
> 
> Note that if you try to reproduce this on x86, you'll likely
> have to --disable-kvm, as otherwise the pxe-test will skip tcg.
> 
> Anyone who knows how this works willing to have a look?

I think patch 2 is doing too much.  Why don't you keep
memory_notdirty_write_prepare and memory_notdirty_write_complete at
first (so that the atomic path is completely unchanged wrt MMU lookup),
and then simplify that separately?  Maybe that shows what's going on.

Paolo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-18  5:26 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] Move notdirty handling to cputlb Richard Henderson
2019-09-18  5:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/3] exec: Adjust notdirty tracing Richard Henderson
2019-09-18  8:34   ` David Hildenbrand
2019-09-18  5:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 2/3] cputlb: Move NOTDIRTY handling from I/O path to TLB path Richard Henderson
2019-09-18  5:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 3/3] cputlb: Remove ATOMIC_MMU_DECLS Richard Henderson
2019-09-18  8:13 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-09-18  8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] Move notdirty handling to cputlb David Hildenbrand

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