Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] Convert ram_list to RCU

2015-02-11 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 11/02/2015 09:47, Fam Zheng wrote: >> > +rcu_read_lock(); >> > +block = atomic_rcu_read(&ram_list.mru_block); >> > if (block && block->host && host - block->host < block->max_length) { >> > goto found; >> > } >> > >> > -QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, ne

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 9/9] Convert ram_list to RCU

2015-02-11 Thread Fam Zheng
On Fri, 02/06 17:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > From: Mike Day > > Allow "unlocked" reads of the ram_list by using an RCU-enabled QLIST. > > The ramlist mutex is kept, because call_rcu callbacks are not run within > the iothread lock. Thus, writers still need to take the ramlist mutex, > but they n