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[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH v01] Xen PVSCSI drivers for pvops xen/stable-

To: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH v01] Xen PVSCSI drivers for pvops xen/stable-2.6.32.x kernel
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:40:51 +0000
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On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 10:15 +0000, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 
> > (The presence of the use of msleep in the eagain case is a bit
> > terrifying. Stripping it out for now and redoing it might not be a
> bad
> > plan)
> 
> Right now the retry is required for xenpaging, otherwise the guests
> filesystem will be corrupted.
> In the long run the newly added waitqueue feature may be used to make
> the page access transparent to the guest and dom0.

I mistakenly thought msleep was a spinning type wait, but it does
actually sleep properly so it's probably not as bad as I thought.

Ian.


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