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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] continue_hypercall_on_cpu rework using tasklets

To: "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx>, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] continue_hypercall_on_cpu rework using tasklets
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:51:46 +0100
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On 16/04/2010 10:20, "Yu, Ke" <ke.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Changesets 21180 and 21181 in xen-unstable are my attempts to fix this. Yu
>> Ke, please let me know if these look and test okay for you guys.
>> 
> 
> We have a stress S3 test upon the Xen 4.1 unstable. Unfortunately, cset 21181
> cannot pass the stress. It hangs after 48 times S3 suspend/resume.  Another
> round test even shows it hangs after 2 times suspend/resume. But it is too
> early to say cset 21181/21180 is the evil, because even cset 21172 (cset ahead
> of continue_hypercall_on_cpu improvement patch) cannot pass the S3 test
> either, although it has bigger success suspend/resume times than cset 21181 .
> so generally, there must be something wrong with S3 logic since Xen 4.0
> release. We are still trying to dig it out...

21172 was not a good changeset to pick. I suggest trying xen-unstable tip
with just 21181/21180 reverted.

 Thanks,
 Keir



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