Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 45/47] Start up a postcopy/listener thread ready for incoming page data

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 06:47:51PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> 
> The loading of a device state (during postcopy) may access guest
> memory that's still on the source machine and thus might need
> a page fill; split off a separate thread that handles the incoming
> page data so that the original incoming migration code can finish
> off the device data.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> ---
>  include/migration/migration.h |  4 +++
>  migration.c                   |  6 +++++
>  savevm.c                      | 62 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/migration/migration.h b/include/migration/migration.h
> index 00255b8..69e776c 100644
> --- a/include/migration/migration.h
> +++ b/include/migration/migration.h
> @@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ struct MigrationIncomingState {
>      QemuThread     fault_thread;
>      QemuSemaphore  fault_thread_sem;
>  
> +    bool           have_listen_thread;

AFAICT have_listen_thread is never set to a value other than 'true',
so there doesn't see much point to it.

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