From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] KVM: Add kvm_get_irq_routing_entry() func
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:41:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101118094151.GJ16832@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE4F247.9080203@redhat.com>
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:30:47AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >>
> >> *entry may be stale after rcu_read_unlock(). Is this a problem?
> >
> >I suppose not. All MSI-X MMIO accessing would be executed without delay, so no re-
> >order issue would happen. If the guest is reading and writing the field at the same
> >time(from two cpus), it should got some kinds of sync method for itself - or it
> >may not care what's the reading result(like the one after msix_mask_irq()).
>
> I guess so. Michael/Alex?
This is kvm_get_irq_routing_entry which is used for table reads,
correct? Actually, the pci read *is* the sync method that guests use,
they rely on reads to flush out all previous writes.
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-18 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-15 9:15 [PATCH 0/6 v5] MSI-X mask support for assigned device Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] PCI: MSI: Move MSI-X entry definition to pci_regs.h Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] PCI: Add mask bit definition for MSI-X table Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: Move struct kvm_io_device to kvm_host.h Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: Add kvm_get_irq_routing_entry() func Sheng Yang
2010-11-17 14:01 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 2:22 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-18 9:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 9:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-11-18 11:59 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-18 12:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 12:40 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: assigned dev: Clean up assigned_device's flag Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: assigned dev: MSI-X mask support Sheng Yang
2010-11-15 9:27 ` [PATCH 6/6 v5 updated] " Sheng Yang
2010-11-16 19:45 ` [PATCH 6/6] " Marcelo Tosatti
2010-11-17 1:29 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-17 13:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-11-18 9:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-17 13:58 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 1:58 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-18 6:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 6:39 ` Sheng Yang
2010-11-18 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 9:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 12:08 ` Sheng Yang
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