Il 29/07/2012 22:29, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:03:45PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 29/07/2012 22:00, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>>> I've been looking at adding caching for IRQs so that we don't need to
>>> scan all VCPUs on each interrupt. One issue I had a problem with, is
>>> how the cache structure can be used from both a thread (to fill out the
>>> cache) and interrupt (to actually send if cache is valid).
>>>
>>> For now just added a lock field in the cache so we don't need to worry
>>> about this, and with such a lock in place we don't have to worry about
>>> RCU as cache can be invalidated simply under this lock.
>>
>> seqlock?
>
> AFAIK seqlock only works if uses of stale data have no side-effects,
> this is not the case here. We could use an rwlock I think.
If you can inject an interrupt using stale data (I think so, that would
be a race in the guest between setting the route and getting the
interrupt) you can use seqlock to get a consistent copy of the entry:
struct kvm_irq_cache ent, *list;
rcu_read_lock();
...
do {
seq = read_seqcount_begin(&list->cnt);
ent = *list;
} while (!read_seqcount_retry(&list->cnt, seq));
rcu_read_unlock();
Paolo
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