2010/4/8 Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com>:
> On 04/08/2010 12:14 PM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think you can in the general case. But if you gate output at the
>>> device level, instead of the instruction level, the problem goes away,
>>> no?
>>
>> Yes, it should.
>> To implement this, we need to make No.3 to be called asynchronously.  If
>> qemu is already handling I/O asynchronously, it would be relatively easy to
>> make this.
>
> Yes, you can release the I/O from the iothread instead of the vcpu thread.
>  You can make virtio_net_handle_tx() disable virtio notifications and
> initiate state sync and return, when state sync continues you can call the
> original virtio_net_handle_tx().  If the secondary takes over, it needs to
> call the original virtio_net_handle_tx() as well.

Agreed.  Let me try it.
Meanwhile, I'll post what I have done including the hack preventing
rip to proceed.
I would appreciate if you could comment on that too, to keep things in
a good direction.
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