Re: [PATCH 3/7] vfio: Introduce interface to flush virqfd inject workqueue

From: Reinette Chatre
Date: Fri Mar 08 2024 - 15:46:35 EST


Hi Alex,

On 3/6/2024 1:14 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> In order to synchronize changes that can affect the thread callback,
> introduce an interface to force a flush of the inject workqueue. The
> irqfd pointer is only valid under spinlock, but the workqueue cannot
> be flushed under spinlock. Therefore the flush work for the irqfd is
> queued under spinlock. The vfio_irqfd_cleanup_wq workqueue is re-used
> for queuing this work such that flushing the workqueue is also ordered
> relative to shutdown.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thank you very much.

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>

Reinette