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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com, isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com,
	Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>,
	ChenFan <chen.fan.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Anshul Makkar <anshul.makkar@profitbricks.com>,
	"afaerber@suse.de" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 10/10] cpus: reclaim allocated vCPU objects
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 10:50:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_XAYGgE3m-qXF3eYU1WzWdHzC4XbTwvepUex7xQiDkRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54857D61.4030502@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 8 December 2014 at 10:28, Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> Yes, it's a limitation now, but it is not the final implementation.
> As to the QEMU side, the vcpu object in kernel is stateless, and a
> reset operation will be done when we hot add a vcpu, so I think we
> can kill the limitation, just choose a parked vcpu and reconfigure
> it before we use it.

Why can't the kernel handle our just destroying the vcpu and
later recreating it if necessary? That seems the more logical
approach than trying to keep fds hanging around in userspace
for reuse.

-- PMM

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-08 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28  3:36 [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 00/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu and i386 cpu hot remove support Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 01/10] cpu: introduce CpuTopoInfo structure for argument simplification Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 02/10] qom/cpu: move register_vmstate to common CPUClass.realizefn Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 12:17   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  2:38     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 03/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu support Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 12:44   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  3:37     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 04/10] x86: add x86_cpu_unrealizefn() for cpu apic remove Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 13:58   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-11  3:06     ` Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 05/10] i386: add cpu device_del support Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:11   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 06/10] qom cpu: rename variable 'cpu_added_notifier' to 'cpu_hotplug_notifier' Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 07/10] qom cpu: add UNPLUG cpu notify support Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 08/10] i386: implement pc interface cpu_common_unrealizefn() in qom/cpu.c Gu Zheng
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 09/10] cpu hotplug: implement function cpu_status_write() for vcpu ejection Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:28   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-08-28  3:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 10/10] cpus: reclaim allocated vCPU objects Gu Zheng
2014-09-09 14:40   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-10  3:54     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11  9:35   ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-11  9:49     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11  9:53     ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-11 12:37       ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12  1:24         ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-12  8:09           ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12  9:53             ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-12 10:30               ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12 10:53               ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-12 13:52                 ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-12 15:34                   ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-15  6:39                   ` Gu Zheng
2014-09-15 10:09                     ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-15 10:33                       ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-15 13:53                         ` Bharata B Rao
2014-09-15 14:29                           ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-11 10:03     ` Anshul Makkar
2014-09-12 14:15   ` Igor Mammedov
2014-09-15  5:03     ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08  9:16   ` Bharata B Rao
2014-12-08  9:26     ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-08 10:28       ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08 10:50         ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2014-12-08 15:38           ` Igor Mammedov
2014-12-08 16:38             ` Peter Maydell
2014-12-09  0:58               ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-09  0:58                 ` Gu Zheng
2014-12-08 10:12     ` Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  1:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC V2 00/10] cpu: add device_add foo-x86_64-cpu and i386 cpu hot remove support Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  1:46 ` Gu Zheng
2014-11-12  7:57   ` Igor Mammedov

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