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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Maxim Levitsky" <mlevitsk@redhat.com>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Chuang Xu" <xuchuangxclwt@bytedance.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] memory: Fix (/ Discuss) a few rcu issues
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 16:50:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZAEaO7Yqw2F8hbbV@x1n> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f130497-1200-8c42-7d48-cadf54f3f6a4@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 04:11:56PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I guess the main concern here would be overhead from gabbing/releasing the
> BQL very often, and blocking the BQL while we're eventually in the kernel,
> clearing bitmaps, correct?

More or less yes.  I think it's pretty clear we move on with RCU unless
extremely necessary (which I don't think..), then it's about how to fix the
bug so rcu safety guaranteed.

-- 
Peter Xu



  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-25 16:31 [PATCH RFC 0/4] memory: Fix (/ Discuss) a few rcu issues Peter Xu
2023-02-25 16:31 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] memory: Make memory_listeners RCU-safe for real Peter Xu
2023-02-25 16:31 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] memory: Use rcu list variance for address_spaces modifications Peter Xu
2023-02-25 16:31 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] memory: Protect memory_region_clear_dirty_bitmap with RCU Peter Xu
2023-02-25 16:31 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] memory: Use rcu traversal in memory_region_to_address_space Peter Xu
2023-03-01  0:09 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] memory: Fix (/ Discuss) a few rcu issues Stefan Hajnoczi
2023-03-01 16:08   ` Peter Xu
2023-03-02  9:46 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-03-02 14:45   ` Peter Xu
2023-03-02 14:56     ` Peter Xu
2023-03-02 15:11     ` David Hildenbrand
2023-03-02 21:50       ` Peter Xu [this message]
2023-03-03  9:10         ` David Hildenbrand
2023-03-03 16:20           ` Peter Xu
2023-03-03 16:58             ` David Hildenbrand

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