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RE: [Xen-devel] Page fault handler preemptable?

To: 'Mike Sun' <msun@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Page fault handler preemptable?
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:03:19 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Page fault handler preemptable?
>From: Mike Sun
>Sent: 2008年9月24日 5:04
>
>Sorry for such a basic question... but is the page fault handler
>routine in the hypervisor preemptable?  For example, let's say guest
>domain A is being live migrated.  As it's running, a page fault
>occurs.  Can the page fault handler be preempted in the middle by say
>the live migration process in dom0?
>

No. Xen itself is not preemptive, and schedule only happens in
the boundary just before returning to guest context.

Thanks,
Kevin
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