Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 08:05:13 EST


Am Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009 13:58:01 schrieben Sie:
> I spawned two ports; one doing 'find /' and the other transferring a
> 800M file from the host to the guest, both running at the same time.
> This is on top of the latest Linus tree + my patches. It works fine.
>
> Can you give me any additional info that can help me nail this down?

This is just a wild guess: My guest has 8 cpus and virtio requires that users do
a proper locking. But as far as I see you use schedule_work which should be
single threaded.
Or maybe this is an existing bug that is just exposed by your patch - dont know.

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