Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] colo-compare: reconstruct the mutex lock usage

[Hailiang Zhang]

On 2017/2/6 17:35, Jason Wang wrote:
> On 2017年02月06日 16:13, Hailiang Zhang wrote:
> > On 2017/2/3 11:47, Jason Wang wrote:
> > > On 2017年01月24日 22:05, zhanghailiang wrote:
> > > > The original 'timer_check_lock' mutex lock of struct CompareState
> > > > is used to protect the 'conn_list' queue and its child queues which
> > > > are 'primary_list' and 'secondary_list', which is a little abused
> > > > and confusing
> > > >
> > > > To make it clearer, we rename 'timer_check_lock' to 'conn_list_lock'
> > > > which is used to protect 'conn_list' queue, use another 'conn_lock'
> > > > to protect 'primary_list' and 'secondary_list'.
> > > >
> > > > Besides, fix some missing places which need these mutex lock.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang<address@hidden>
> > >
> > > Instead of sticking to such kind of mutex, I think it's time to make
> > > colo timer run in colo thread (there's a TODO in the code).
> >
> > Er, it seems that, we still need these mutex locks even we make colo
> > timer and colo thread run in the same thread, because we may access
> > the connect/primary/secondary list from colo (migratioin) thread
> > concurrently.
>
> Just make sure I understand the issue, why need it access the list?
>
> > Besides, it seems to be a little complex to make colo timer run in colo
> > compare thread, and it is not this series' goal.
>
> Seems not by just looking at how it was implemented in main loop, but
> maybe I was wrong.
>
> > This series is preparing
> > work for integrating COLO compare with COLO frame and it is prerequisite.
> >
> > So, we may consider implementing it later in another series.
> > Zhang Chen, what's your opinion ?
>
> The problem is this patch make things even worse, it introduces one more
> mutex.

Hmm, for most cases, we need to get these two locks at the same time.
We can use one lock to protect conn_list/primary_list/secondary_list,
(We need to get this lock before operate all these lists, as you can see
in patch 2, while do checkpoint, we may operate these lists in
COLO checkpoint thread concurrently.)

But for the original codes, we didn't got timer_check_lock in
packet_enqueue() while operate conn_list/primary_list/secondary_list,
and didn't got this lock in colo_compare_connection while operate
secondary_list either.

So, is it OK to use the conn_lock instead of timer_check_lock, and
add the lock where it is need ?

Thanks.
Hailiang

> Thanks
>
> > Thanks,
> > Hailiang
> >
> > > Thought?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > .
>
>
> .