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Leander Kohler 3e3008f365 virtio-devices: signal activated queue eventfds on resume
A restored virtqueue can already contain pending descriptors when the VM
resumes. Before this change, the worker thread was unparked and then
waited for a fresh queue eventfd signal. That is normally fine, but not
when the queue was already non-empty at snapshot time. The virtqueue
state lives in guest memory and is restored, but the original host-side
queue eventfd signal is not persistent snapshot state. If the guest
already notified the queue before the snapshot, it may not notify it
again after resume.

That can leave the worker idle while the guest is still waiting for the
pending request to complete. In one observed case, this stalled a
virtio-blk flush during early boot after snapshot/restore.

We mitigate this in the shared `VirtioCommon` resume path.
`VirtioCommon` retains cloned queue eventfds for activated virtqueues
and signals each of them once on resume after unparking the worker
threads.

Keep virtio-net on its existing special-case path: it resumes worker
threads without signaling queue eventfds so the `driver_awake`
workaround remains intact until the guest performs a real notify.

On-behalf-of: SAP leander.kohler@sap.com
Signed-off-by: Leander Kohler <leander.kohler@cyberus-technology.de>
2026-04-14 12:29:31 +00:00
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