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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	cohuck@redhat.com, borntraeger@linux.ibm.com,
	jjherne@linux.ibm.com, akrowiak@linux.ibm.com,
	pasic@linux.ibm.com, zhenyuw@linux.intel.com,
	zhi.a.wang@intel.com, hch@infradead.org,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
	intel-gvt-dev@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2023 10:29:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7gwY1UJq3DNbjRu@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0e55400-d749-23a2-c88f-a2272723bc65@linux.ibm.com>

On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 08:03:32PM -0500, Matthew Rosato wrote:
> On 1/5/23 7:32 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 07:16:37PM -0500, Matthew Rosato wrote:
> > 
> >> Yeah, this is also what I was thinking, replace the direct
> >> kvm_put_kvm calls with, say, schedule_delayed_work in each driver,
> >> where the delayed task just does the kvm_put_kvm (along with a brief
> >> comment explaining why we handle the put asynchronously).
> > 
> > Don't put that in every driver, do something like mmput_async() where
> > the core code has all of this.
> > 
> 
> If the core vfio code were to add logic to invoke kvm_put_kvm and
> kvm_get_kvm, won't this introduce a vfio dependency on kvm?  If I
> recall, we have the drivers handling the kvm reference today in
> order to avoid that..

Not in vfio, put it in kvm 'kvm_put_async()'

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-06 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-19 18:33 [PATCH v3 0/1] vfio: remove VFIO_GROUP_NOTIFY_SET_KVM Matthew Rosato
2022-05-19 18:33 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] " Matthew Rosato
2022-05-20  5:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-05-20 13:36   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-05-20 13:56   ` Tony Krowiak
2022-05-20 14:09     ` Matthew Rosato
2022-05-20 20:59       ` Tony Krowiak
2022-05-23 16:41   ` Alex Williamson
2022-05-24 11:39     ` Wang, Zhi A
2023-01-05 22:09   ` Alex Williamson
2023-01-05 23:34     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-06  0:16       ` Matthew Rosato
2023-01-06  0:32         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-01-06  1:03           ` Matthew Rosato
2023-01-06 14:29             ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2022-05-24 16:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/1] " Alex Williamson

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