On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 11:56 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Sasha Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm just saying that we're limited to as many VCPU threads as we > > can create. br_read_lock() won't do anything on a non-VCPU thread, > > which makes it impossible to test it on non-VCPUs. > > btw., i wondered about that limit - don't we want to fix it? > > I mean, there's no fundamental reason why brlocks should do 'nothing' > in worker threads. In fact it's a subtle breakage waiting AFAICS. > Can they do anything useful without locking? I think we should work on integrating an RCU and changing brlocks to use that instead of focusing too much on the current implementation. This will also fix that limit you don't like :)
> We should have enumeration for all threads that kvm starts, and that > we can use for a generic pause/resume facility. Can you see anything > that prevents that model? > Theres a difference between how you would pause a VCPU thread as opposed to a non-VCPU thread, other than that - no. We could use a thread manager. > Thanks, > > Ingo -- Sasha. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
