Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> writes:
> On 1/9/26 12:46, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> IMHO the root problem is that it is pretty dubious for us to be
>> spawning the RCU thread from a constructor. Constructors should
>> be limited to minimal initialization of state.
Yes! Discussed in review of v3:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>> Spawning threads
>> is outside the boundary of what I'd consider reasonable for
>> a constructor todo. I didn't want try to tackle refactoring the
>> RCU thread creation though, hence this gross workaround.
>
> I see. Maybe we could (just as gross but smaller) do the RCU constructor
> late. Not something that you need to do now, of course.
Could we use an old-fashioned initialization function instead of a
constructor for RCU?
