From: "Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Pending Disk I/O requests during live VM migration
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:05:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f43fc5580710041005m44e1f52fraf26bd0a58410629@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47051824.1080607@cc.gatech.edu>
On 10/4/07, Kaushik Bhandankar <kaushikb@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 1) I guess the IDE disk code is in ioemu/hw/ide.c. But where is the IDE
> disk controller code located ??
Same file, see ide_ioport_write().
> 2) I do not really understand BMDMA in ioemu/hw/ide.c. google doesnt
> seem to be helping much here. Any documentation about the QEMU IDE disks
> would be greatly appreciated.
No idea.
> 3) vl.c:5522 seems to be not the correct code (I guess our vl.c codes
> are different).. Could you point me to the routine in vl.c where the
> pending disk IO requests are flushed before VM save (I guess the VM save
> happens in qemu_savevm_state() in vl.c wherein it invokes all the
> registered save handlers)?
It's in:
void do_savevm(const char *name)
> 4) Somebody told me that the pending disk IO requests are stored
> somewhere in quemu's I/O disk model but I am not sure exactly
> where....Can somebody help me with this ?
Qemu uses asynchronous IO, grepping aio or AIO should find something.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 16:01 [Qemu-devel] Pending Disk I/O requests during live VM migration Kaushik Bhandankar
2007-10-04 16:30 ` Blue Swirl
2007-10-04 16:43 ` Kaushik Bhandankar
2007-10-04 17:05 ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2007-10-11 22:00 ` Kaushik Bhandankar
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