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Re: [Xen-users] "xm save" only works once...

To: Ralph Passgang <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] "xm save" only works once...
From: Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:14:57 +0100
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>Am Montag, 15. August 2005 23:29 schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> Steven Hand wrote:
>> >>I am using Xen-2.0.7 on a Dual Intel Xeon 2.8GHz system with 4GB of ram.
>> >> I am using 2.6.11 as kernel for my domain 0. Domain 0 uses Debian Sarge
>> >> with a backported Xen 2.0.7 package (only litte changes to the debian
>> >> 2.0.6 package, nothing important enough to get metioned). All kernels
>> >> were compiled against vanilla kernels with xen-patch. The domain U's are
>> >> using 2.6.11 or 2.4.30 (debian, suse).
>> >>
>> >>I have no problems within domains and everything is running very
>> >> smoothly, exepct one thing (which was also not working correctly in
>> >> xen-2.0.6 for me): I can save a domain with "xm save <domainname>
>> >> <suspendfile>" once and I can restore this domain again, but if I try a
>> >> second "xm save ..." it simply seems to hang. Nothing happens and the
>> >> last thing in the logs are these lines:
>> >
>> >Is this the same with both 2.4 and 2.6 domUs? I've noticed something
>> > similar with 2.0.7 but only with 2.4 domUs ... it would be useful to know
>> > if it affects 2.6 also - I'm trying to track it down.
>
>yes, it's the same with 2.4 and 2.6 domUs...
>
>> There's a very similiar problem in 3.0 that has to do with a race
>> condition with the xc_save/Xend interaction.  xc_save thinks it has sent
>> the "suspend" command over the pipe and Xend is waiting for it to arrive.
>
>... but after some more testing I noticed another interessting thing. "xm 
>save" hangs if the suspend file doesn't exist. For the first time after a 
>dom0 reboot it's normaly no problem, but if I delete the file and try a "xm 
>save" again it will not work for 95%.
>
>If I keep the save-file and then make a "xm save" and a "xm restore" it seems 
>to be no problem. I made 10 tests and all worked.

Fix attached below - it's actually nothing to do with whether the file 
exists or not. Rather the problem is that on occasion xfrd sends a response 
and a request in the same 'message', and Xend only deals with the first.

The below fixes this for me - please let me know if it works for you, 

cheers,

S.



diff -r 973a2d3c7a63 tools/python/xen/xend/XendMigrate.py
--- a/tools/python/xen/xend/XendMigrate.py      Wed Aug  3 23:24:27 2005
+++ b/tools/python/xen/xend/XendMigrate.py      Thu Aug 18 19:14:42 2005
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 
     def dataReceived(self, data):
         self.parser.input(data)
-        if self.parser.ready():
+        while(self.parser.ready()): 
             val = self.parser.get_val()
             self.xinfo.dispatch(self, val)
         if self.parser.at_eof():



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