Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] create a single workqueue for each vm to update vm irq routing table

[Gleb Natapov]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:29:36AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 28/11/2013 10:19, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> > Not changing current behaviour is certainly safer, but I am still not 100%
> > convinced we have to ensure this.
> > 
> > Suppose guest does:
> > 
> > 1: change msi interrupt by writing to pci register
> > 2: read the pci register to flush the write
> > 3: zero idt
> > 
> > I am pretty certain that this code can get interrupt after step 2 on real 
> > HW,
> > but I cannot tell if guest can rely on it to be delivered exactly after
> > read instruction or it can be delayed by couple of instructions.
> 
> I agree it's fragile, but if a dedicated SRCU can meet the requirements
> (possibly with synchronize_srcu_expedited), I prefer not to break it.
> 
Definitely. If we can find reasonable solution that preserves current semantics
it's preferable path to take.

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                        Gleb.