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Re: [PATCH v1] domctl: hold domctl lock while domain is destroyed
- To: Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:19:29 +0200
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On 17.09.2021 18:01, Julien Grall wrote:
> I will quote what Hongyan wrote back on the first report:
>
> "
> The best solution is to make the heap scalable instead of a global
> lock, but that is not going to be trivial.
>
> Of course, another solution is to keep the domctl lock dropped in
> domain_kill() but have another domain_kill lock so that competing
> domain_kill()s will try to take that lock and back off with hypercall
> continuation. But this is kind of hacky (we introduce a lock to reduce
> spinlock contention elsewhere), which is probably not a solution but a
> workaround.
> "
Interesting. Is contention on the heap lock merely suspected or
was that lock proven to be the problem one?
Jan
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