Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] vl: Sync dirty bitmap when system resets

2020-05-23 Thread Peter Xu
On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 05:04:23PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > Paolo, > > Do you have any opinion on this series? Or more generally comments on what's > your preference to fix the known dirty sync issue with memslot removal would > be > welcomed too. For my own opinion, I prefer the approach with

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] vl: Sync dirty bitmap when system resets

2020-05-02 Thread Peter Xu
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:32:27AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:26:07PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > > * Peter Xu (pet...@redhat.com) wrote: > > > This RFC series starts from the fact that we will sync dirty bitmap when > > > removing a memslot for KVM. IIUC that w

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] vl: Sync dirty bitmap when system resets

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Xu
On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:26:07PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Peter Xu (pet...@redhat.com) wrote: > > This RFC series starts from the fact that we will sync dirty bitmap when > > removing a memslot for KVM. IIUC that was majorly to maintain the dirty > > bitmap > > even across a sys

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] vl: Sync dirty bitmap when system resets

2020-04-29 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Peter Xu (pet...@redhat.com) wrote: > This RFC series starts from the fact that we will sync dirty bitmap when > removing a memslot for KVM. IIUC that was majorly to maintain the dirty > bitmap > even across a system reboot. > > This series wants to move that sync from kvm memslot removal to s

[PATCH RFC 0/4] vl: Sync dirty bitmap when system resets

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Xu
This RFC series starts from the fact that we will sync dirty bitmap when removing a memslot for KVM. IIUC that was majorly to maintain the dirty bitmap even across a system reboot. This series wants to move that sync from kvm memslot removal to system reset. (I still don't know why the reset sys