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Re: [Xen-devel] Suspend/Save a machine under HVM (questions for implementation in Win GPL PV driveres)


  • To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:54:22 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:54:16 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] Suspend/Save a machine under HVM (questions for implementation in Win GPL PV driveres)

On 26/2/08 11:27, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> *1 what happens if the outstanding requests were:
> A - Read value from sector 42
> B - Write value X to sector 42
> C - Read value from sector 42
> 
> If all the requests had been completed by the backend but not yet
> processed on the frontend, then when the operations are retransmitted,
> operation A is going to return the value of X, instead of whatever was
> previously in sector 42. Maybe this doesn't matter...

This doesn't happen with Linux I'm pretty sure, as accesses to a single
block are serialised at a higher level.

 -- Keir



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