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From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] xen: Document XEN_SYSCTL_CPUPOOL_OP_RMCPU anomalous EBUSY result
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:11:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22288.63151.980224.793369@mariner.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5710EABB.3010003@suse.com>

Juergen Gross writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] xen: Document XEN_SYSCTL_CPUPOOL_OP_RMCPU anomalous EBUSY result"):
> Just saw there are still two cases left where EBUSY will be returned:
> 
> - when trying to remove the last cpu from a cpupool with active domains
>   (EBUSY seems appropriate)

The problem is that EBUSY here might mean "this operation can't be
done because it amounts to a request for a configuration which
violates an invariant" or "this operation can't be done for temporary
reasons and you should retry it".

Ian.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-15 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-14 17:07 [PATCH 0/3] Revert xc cpupool retries and document anomaly Ian Jackson
2016-04-14 17:07 ` [PATCH 1/3] libxc: Revert "do some retries in xc_cpupool_removecpu() for EBUSY case" Ian Jackson
2016-04-15  5:15   ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15  7:46     ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-14 17:07 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen: hypercall docs annotations for xen_sysctl_cpupool_op Ian Jackson
2016-04-14 20:37   ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-15 10:27     ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-14 17:07 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen: Document XEN_SYSCTL_CPUPOOL_OP_RMCPU anomalous EBUSY result Ian Jackson
2016-04-14 17:24   ` Andrew Cooper
2016-04-14 17:56     ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-14 20:22       ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-15 10:20         ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-15 10:43           ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15 10:58             ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-15 11:37               ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15 13:20               ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15 13:33                 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-15 14:11                 ` Ian Jackson [this message]
2016-04-15 14:39                   ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15  5:35   ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15  7:42     ` Dario Faggioli
2016-04-15 14:12       ` Ian Jackson
2016-04-15 14:17         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-15 14:34         ` Juergen Gross
2016-04-15 14:44           ` Ian Jackson

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