Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 05/11] cpu: Reclaim vCPU objects

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:25:13PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> From: Gu Zheng <address@hidden>
> 
> In order to deal well with the kvm vcpus (which can not be removed without any
> protection), we do not close KVM vcpu fd, just record and mark it as stopped
> into a list, so that we can reuse it for the appending cpu hot-add request if
> possible. It is also the approach that kvm guys suggested:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg102839.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Guihua <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <address@hidden>
>                [- Explicit CPU_REMOVE() from qemu_kvm/tcg_destroy_vcpu()
>                   isn't needed as it is done from cpu_exec_exit()
>                 - Use iothread mutex instead of global mutex during
>                   destroy
>                 - Don't cleanup vCPU object from vCPU thread context
>                   but leave it to the callers (device_add/device_del)]

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>

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