All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com
Cc: agl@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add virtagent file system freeze/thaw
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 07:57:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=+E6zJ_kegGPQVFA-cKq2Ew6fyrFdUEG7zTxFq@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296557928-30019-2-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM,  <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>
> Implement freeze/thaw support in the guest, allowing the host to
> request the guest freezes all it's file systems before a live snapshot
> is performed.
>  - fsfreeze(): Walk the list of mounted local real file systems,
>               and freeze them.

Does this add a requirement that guest agent code issues no disk I/O
in its main loop (e.g. logging)?  Otherwise we might deadlock
ourselves waiting for I/O which is never issued.

Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 10:58 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtagent - fsfreeze support Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-01 10:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add virtagent file system freeze/thaw Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-01 14:12   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-01 14:26     ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-01 14:34       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-01 14:36         ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-01 14:41           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-01 17:22             ` Michael Roth
2011-02-01 14:48   ` [Qemu-devel] " Adam Litke
2011-02-01 15:02     ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-01 16:50   ` Michael Roth
2011-02-02  8:38     ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-02  7:57   ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2011-02-02  8:48     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jes Sorensen
2011-02-03 17:41       ` Michael Roth
2011-02-04  6:13         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-04 16:27           ` Michael Roth
2011-02-04 16:52             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-04 11:03         ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-04 16:51           ` Michael Roth
2011-02-01 10:58 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add monitor commands for fsfreeze support Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-01 11:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] virtagent - " Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-02-01 13:02   ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-01 16:04   ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-02-01 20:04     ` Vasiliy G Tolstov
2011-02-01 20:17       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2011-02-01 14:16 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-02-01 14:28   ` Jes Sorensen
2011-02-02  8:42 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 " Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-02  8:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add virtagent file system freeze/thaw Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-04 10:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] virtagent - fsfreeze support Jes.Sorensen
2011-02-04 10:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add virtagent file system freeze/thaw Jes.Sorensen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='AANLkTi=+E6zJ_kegGPQVFA-cKq2Ew6fyrFdUEG7zTxFq@mail.gmail.com' \
    --to=stefanha@gmail.com \
    --cc=Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com \
    --cc=agl@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.