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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovgaluk@ispras.ru>,
	'Pavel Dovgalyuk' <pavel.dovgaluk@ispras.ru>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, peter.maydell@linaro.org, mst@redhat.com,
	jasowang@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 06/10] replay: fix save/load vm for non-empty queue
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 15:12:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf930126-426b-b208-8fcb-76adda3bd9f5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001201d2c4d6$c26bdd20$47439760$@ru>



On 04/05/2017 15:02, Pavel Dovgalyuk wrote:
>> Understood.  And what checkpoint will you be waiting for during drain,
>> causing a deadlock?
> Every checkpoint processes the queue, but none of them are invoked,
> because iothread (which invokes all the checkpoints) is waiting for the end of the drain.
> 
> And we cannot add a checkpoint into the drain, because then vmstop will
> affect the behavior of the guest.

But it does affect the behavior already when RR is off.  And it
shouldn't be a problem if it does in record mode (as long as the effect
can be replayed).

If RR cannot do drain reliably, not even in record mode, that is a huge
problem because a lot of block layer operations assume they can.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-04 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-04  8:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/10] replay additions Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 01/10] block: implement bdrv_snapshot_goto for blkreplay Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 02/10] blkreplay: create temporary overlay for underlaying devices Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 03/10] replay: disable default snapshot for record/replay Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 04/10] replay: fix processing async events Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 10:30   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 12:32     ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 05/10] replay: fixed replay_enable_events Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 06/10] replay: fix save/load vm for non-empty queue Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  9:33   ` Juan Quintela
2017-05-04 10:03     ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 10:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 11:13     ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 11:52       ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 11:54         ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 12:02           ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 12:10             ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 12:32               ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 12:34                 ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 12:52                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-04 13:02                     ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04 13:12                       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-05-04 13:24                         ` Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 07/10] replay: added replay log format description Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 08/10] replay: make safe vmstop at record/replay Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 09/10] replay: save prior value of the host clock Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 10/10] icount: fixed saving/restoring of icount warp timers Pavel Dovgalyuk
2017-05-04  9:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 00/10] replay additions no-reply

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