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Re: [Xen-devel] Some question to changeset 17962

To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>, Brendan Cully <brendan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Some question to changeset 17962
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:25:10 +0000
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On 10/03/2009 01:47, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Agreed :)
> 
> Brendan/Keir, thanks for your clarification. I asked this because according
> discussion with Tim, we will utilize this feature for page offline also, that
> means multiple process will utilize this feature.
> I will create something in tools to achieve this.

Well hang on. Only one process can likely safely suspend and work on a guest
at a time. Unless you do some serialisation in the toolstack (probably xend)
then you're going to be racey aren't you? I don't think you need to
serialise in the hypervisor.

 -- Keir



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