Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: Count the number of dirty pages for dirty logging

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On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:06:47 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > There seems to be possible concurrent __set_bit()'s to the same word
> > which will result in bit loss.
> >
> > I was thinking to change the kvm-unit-tests' dirty log test to write
> > to two consecutive pages concurrently.  Is this good for debugging this?
> 
> Yes, it already tests some concurrency issues.  Please do write the
> test, we should do this a lot more often.
> 

OK, I will write the test.

If I can find a bit loss by that, I will send a fix patch: this is an
important issue for my current work.

	Takuya
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