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Re: [Xen-devel] why xenstore-* hangs if xenstored is not started

To: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] why xenstore-* hangs if xenstored is not started
From: Yu Zhiguo <yuzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:58:44 +0800
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Hi,

Vincent Hanquez wrote:

> That's the common behavior of task stuck in a kernel operation (ps aux
> will show the task at D, and /proc/<pid>/wchan will tell you exactly
> where it's blocked in the kernel).
> 
> the write is going to wait for a xenstored reply in kernel mode since by
> default the xenstore-* tools use the kernel xenstore page to communicate
> with xenstored.
> 
> The unix socket operations doesn't have this "problems" (xenstore-* -s)
> 

Thanks~~
I confirmed the task is at D+ and there are no this "problem" if use option -s.
But I think S+ is better than D+...


Yu


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