On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 09:57:34AM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: > Hi Jason, > > On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:18:07 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 09:18:06AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote: > > > > > > Acquire from the xarray is > > > > rcu_lock() > > > > ioas = xa_load() > > > > if (ioas) > > > > if (down_read_trylock(&ioas->destroying_lock)) > > > > > > all good suggestions, will refine accordingly. Here destroying_lock is a > > > rw_semaphore. right? Since down_read_trylock() accepts a rwsem. > > > > Yes, you probably need a sleeping lock > > > I am not following why we want a sleeping lock inside RCU protected > section?
trylock is not sleeping > For ioas, do we really care about the stale data to choose rw_lock vs RCU? > Destroying can be kfree_rcu? It needs a hard fence so things don't continue to use the IOS once it is destroyed. Jason _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
