From: Avi Kivity [mailto:avi@xxxxxxxxxx]I definitely agree that the hypervisor can't wait for a guest
On 10/29/2009 06:15 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
On a related note, though some topic drift, many ofIMO that's not a good direction. The hypervisor should not depend on
the problems that occur in virtualization due to migration
could be better addressed if Linux had an architected
interface to allow it to be signaled if a migration
occurred, and if Linux could signal applications of
the same. I don't have any cycles (pun intended) to
think about this right now, but if anyone else starts
looking at it, I'd love to be cc'ed.
the guest for migration (the guest may be broken, or
malicious, or being
debugged, or slow). So the notification must be asynchronous, which
means that it will only be delivered to applications after
migration has
completed.
to respond.
You've likely thought through this a lot more than I have,
but I was thinking that if the kernel received the notification
as some form of interrupt, it could determine immediately
if any running threads had registered for "SIG_MIGRATE"
and deliver the signal synchronously.
Instead of a "migration has occured, run for the hills" signal we'rePerhaps. It certainly isn't warranted for this one
better of finding out why applications want to know about
this event and
addressing specific needs.
special case of timestamp handling. But I'll bet 5-10 years
from now, after we've handled a few special cases, we'll
wish that we would have handled it more generically.