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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH] dpci: Put the dpci back on the list if running on another CPU.



On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 04:01:49PM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 17.03.15 at 15:54, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:42:21AM +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >> I'm still running with this first simple stopgap patch from Konrad,
> >> and it has worked fine for me since.
> > 
> > I believe the patch that Sander and Malcom had been running is the best
> > candidate.
> 
> That's the one Sander had quoted I suppose? I don't think this is

Correct.
> any better in terms of live locking, and we went quite some hoops
> to get to something that looked more like a fix than a quick
> workaround. (If there's nothing we can agree to, we'll have to
> revert as we did for 4.5.)

The live-locking does get broken (other softirqs get activated which
moves things along). Keep in mind that the live-locking scenario
exists already in Xen 4.x with the tasklet implementation.

> 
> Jan
> 

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