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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 08:52:33 +0000
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Okay, I misread your original email. Tools it is then!

 -- Keir

On 10/03/2009 08:29, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sure, I will not do serialization in hypervisor.
> I have try the implemetnation in libxc side, not xend.
> 
> -- Yunhong Jiang
> 
> Keir Fraser <mailto:keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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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