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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/1] Make qemu_peek_buffer loop until it gets
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/1] Make qemu_peek_buffer loop until it gets it's data |
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Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:58:38 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
* ???? (address@hidden) wrote:
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> > * ???? (address@hidden) wrote:
> >>
> >> ?? 2014??4??8????????10:29??Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) <address@hidden>
> >> ??????
> >>
> >>> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> >>>
> >>> Make qemu_peek_buffer repeatedly call fill_buffer until it gets
> >>> all the data it requires, or until there is an error.
> >>>
> >>> At the moment, qemu_peek_buffer will try one qemu_fill_buffer if there
> >>> isn't enough data waiting, however the kernel is entitled to return
> >>> just a few bytes, and still leave qemu_peek_buffer with less bytes
> >>> than it needed. I've seen this fail in a dev world, and I think it
> >>> could theoretically fail in the peeking of the subsection headers in
> >>> the current world.
> >> hmm, I also have got some errors(infrequently). Maybe It is one point.
> >> Could you show some messages about the error?
> >
> > I've only seen the errors in my visitor/ber world where I use the
> > peek_buffer
> > a lot more; but the one place it is used in the existing code is in
> > the code to check if we have the start of a subsection; if that goes wrong
> > I'm not sure what error would be produced.
> >
> > Dave
> In my observation, error is more likely to happen if migration thread is
> blocked too long.
> BTW, xbzrle and auto convergence are disable.
What error do you see?
Dave
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