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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation

To: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/5] x86/pvclock: add vsyscall implementation
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Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:28:49 +0200
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On 10/29/2009 06:15 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
On a related note, though some topic drift, many of
the problems that occur in virtualization due to migration
could be better addressed if Linux had an architected
interface to allow it to be signaled if a migration
occurred, and if Linux could signal applications of
the same.  I don't have any cycles (pun intended) to
think about this right now, but if anyone else starts
looking at it, I'd love to be cc'ed.

IMO that's not a good direction. The hypervisor should not depend on the guest for migration (the guest may be broken, or malicious, or being debugged, or slow). So the notification must be asynchronous, which means that it will only be delivered to applications after migration has completed.

Instead of a "migration has occured, run for the hills" signal we're better of finding out why applications want to know about this event and addressing specific needs.

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