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xen-devel
Re: [Xen-devel] Suspend/Save a machine under HVM (questions for implemen
On 26/2/08 11:27, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *1 what happens if the outstanding requests were:
> A - Read value from sector 42
> B - Write value X to sector 42
> C - Read value from sector 42
>
> If all the requests had been completed by the backend but not yet
> processed on the frontend, then when the operations are retransmitted,
> operation A is going to return the value of X, instead of whatever was
> previously in sector 42. Maybe this doesn't matter...
This doesn't happen with Linux I'm pretty sure, as accesses to a single
block are serialised at a higher level.
-- Keir
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