Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Tweaks around virtio-blk start/stop

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 03/21 14:02, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 20:45:27 +0800
> Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 03/21 12:15, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:57:18 +0800
> > > Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > > index 08275a9..47f8043 100644
> > > > --- a/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > > +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio.c
> > > > @@ -1098,7 +1098,14 @@ void virtio_queue_notify_vq(VirtQueue *vq)
> > > > 
> > > >  void virtio_queue_notify(VirtIODevice *vdev, int n)
> > > >  {
> > > > -    virtio_queue_notify_vq(&vdev->vq[n]);
> > > > +    VirtQueue *vq = &vdev->vq[n];
> > > > +    EventNotifier *n;
> > > > +    n = virtio_queue_get_host_notifier(vq);
> > > > +    if (n) {
> > > 
> > > Isn't that always true, even if the notifier has not been setup?
> > 
> > You are right, this doesn't make a correct fix. But we can still do a quick
> > test with this as the else branch should never be used with ioeventfd=on. Am I
> > right?
> > 
> > Fam
> 
> Won't we come through here for the very first kick, when we haven't
> registered the ioeventfd with the kernel yet?
> 

The ioeventfd in virtio-ccw is registered in the main loop when
VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK is set, so I think the first kick is okay.

Fam