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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Require that xenstored writes to a domain
	complete in a single chunk
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:09:13 +0000
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:14:05PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:

> The Linux suspend thread does not sync with the xenbus reader thread at all.
> I'm not sure why we've never seen any problems on Linux, but I guess it's
> rare that a message cannot be sent all in one go. Especially a watch event,
> as those are usually fairly short.

Presumably we have to make sure we've waited for all threads waiting for
a response to have woken up from the sleep-until-reply too, though; I'm
not sure we do that.

regards
john