On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 04:32:34PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > Yeah I understand that other RCU read section may introduce delays too. > The question is how big the delay may be. I recall seeing the number "at least 3 jiffies" somewhere, but that might have changed since. > I don't think multiple > milliseconds delay in device de-assignment is a big issue though. Right. My point was that since the sync is done under kvm lock, the guest can easily get blocked trying to get kvm lock meanwhile. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html