Re: [PATCH for-next 4/4] RDMA/efa: CQ notifications

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On 07/09/2021 14:31, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 05:36:23PM +0300, Gal Pressman wrote:
> 
>>> I can't say if it is needed or not, just wanted to understand why you need
>>> complexity in destroy_cq path.
>>
>> Well, as I said, I don't think the restrack protection is enough in this case as
>> it isn't aware of the concurrent eq flow.
>>
>> I guess I can put a synchronize_irq() on destroy_cq flow to get rid of the race.
> 
> That is a better choice that synchronize_rcu(), IIRC
> 
> synchronize_rcu should be avoided compared to all other forms of
> synchronization because it can take seconds per call to complete, and
> in a reasonable verbs app this means potentially minutes to close the
> verbs FD and destroy many CQs.

Got it, will use synchronize_irq, thanks.



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