Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:01:41 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stopped by host |
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On 12/15/2011 08:53 PM, Eric B Munson wrote: > I am working on V7 to incorporate the __this_cpu_and suggestion, would you > consider that for inclusion and we can continue discussing the need for the > preemption notification work?
Okay.
> I think that having a guest complain when the > host is so loaded that the guest watchdog threads can't make any progress is > desirable behavior, it may be the only notification that an admin gets that a > particular host is over loaded.
It's the wrong admin, consider a cloud scenario where the host admin and guest admin are different people.
Notification on host overload (to initiate migration, say) is a good idea, but it would be a different mechanism.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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