Re: [PATCH kvmtool] virtio: Fix ordering of virt_queue__should_signal()

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Hello Milan,

On 7/31/20 11:05 PM, Milan Kocian wrote:
> Hello,
>  
>> I *think* this also fixes the VM hang reported in [1], where several
>> processes in the guest were stuck in uninterruptible sleep. I am not
>> familiar with the block layer, but my theory is that the threads were stuck
>> in wait_for_completion_io(), from blk_execute_rq() executing a flush
>> request. It would be great if Milan could give this patch a spin and see if
>> the problem goes away. Don't know how reproducible it is though.
>>
>> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg204543.html
>>
> Okay, I will test it but it takes some time. Because I migrated to the
> qemu due this problem :-) so I need to prepare new environment. And
> because the problem happens randomly. My environment can run days/few weeks
> without this problem.

Thank you for giving this a go, much appreciated!

It's unfortunate that you had to stop using kvmtool because of the bug, hopefully
this patch fixes it.

Thanks,
Alex



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