Re: [PATCH 0/5 V5] Avoid soft lockup message when KVM is stoppedby host

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/15/2011 08:53 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
> I am working on V7 to incorporate the __this_cpu_and suggestion, would you
> consider that for inclusion and we can continue discussing the need for the
> preemption notification work?  

Okay.

> I think that having a guest complain when the
> host is so loaded that the guest watchdog threads can't make any progress is
> desirable behavior, it may be the only notification that an admin gets that a
> particular host is over loaded.

It's the wrong admin, consider a cloud scenario where the host admin and
guest admin are different people.

Notification on host overload (to initiate migration, say) is a good
idea, but it would be a different mechanism.

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