> From: Alex Bennée [mailto:alex.ben...@linaro.org] > Pavel Dovgalyuk <dovga...@ispras.ru> writes: > > > Guest Windows XP doesn't boot with these patches. > > I'm guessing there is hardware attached to that machine?
Only mouse, keyboard and hdd. > Did the asserts catch double locking? No, they didn't. The emulation also became much slower. Maybe Windows boots, but with huge slowdown? > As I said there are still changes to be made to > the hardware emulation that saves async events with the device data. What devices do you mean? > But the real question is do you think that re-purposing replay_lock to > give the sequential guarantees that the BQL used to is the right > approach? This approach seems to be ok - you raised the lock and io/cpu threads are now synchronized. This is how BQL worked before. Pavel Dovgalyuk
