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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO
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Alberto Garcia |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: Switch to host monotonic clock for IO throttling |
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Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:56:05 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 01:24:15PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Currently, throttle timers won't make any progress when VCPU is not
> running, which would stall the request queue in utils, qtest, vm
> suspending, and live migration without special handling.
>
> For example in bdrv_drain_all, all requests are resumed immediately
> without taking throttling limit into account. This means whenever it is
> called, IO throttling goes ineffective (examples: system reset,
> migration and many block job operations.).
>
> This might be some loophole that guest could exploit.
>
> If we use the host clock, we can later just trust the nested poll when
> waiting for requests.
>
> Note that for qemu-iotests case 093, which sets up qtest when running
> QEMU, we still use vm clock so the script can control the clock stepping
> in order to be deterministic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <address@hidden>
Berto