linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 02/12] Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out.

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Date:	Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:56:31 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	riel@...hat.com, cl@...ux-foundation.org, mtosatti@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/12] Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped
 out.

  On 10/10/2010 05:55 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> There is special completion that tells guest to wake all sleeping tasks
>> on vcpu. It is delivered after migration on the destination.
>>
> >
>
> Yes, I saw.
>
> What if you can't deliver it?  is it possible that some other vcpu 
> will start receiving apfs that alias the old ones?  Or is the 
> broadcast global?
>

And, is the broadcast used only for migrations?


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