On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:56:45 +0200 Halil Pasic <pasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/19/2018 04:07 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > Do you spot any other places where we may need to care about concurrent > > processing (like for the ->config area in the previous patch)? > > > > It is hard to tell, because: > * Synchronization external to the transport could make things work > out just fine. > * virtio_config_ops does not document these requirements if any. > * So it's up to the devices to use the stuff without shooting > themselves in the foot. > * virtio-pci does not seem to do more to avoid such problems that > we do. > > Back then when learning vritio-ccw I did ask myself such questions > and based on vrito-pci and I was like looks similar, should be > good enough. Yep, I agree. If there's nothing obvious, I think we should just leave it as it is now.