Re: [PATCH 2/9] vhost: move vhost worker creation to kick setup

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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:05:53PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> The next patch will add new ioctls that allows userspace to create workers
> and bind them to devs and vqs after VHOST_SET_OWNER. To support older
> tools, newer tools that want to go wild with worker threads, and newer
> tools that want the old/default behavior this patch moves the default
> worker setup to the kick setup.
> 
> After the first vq's kick/poll setup is done we could start to get works
> queued, so this is the point when we must have a worker setup. If we are
> using older tools or the newer tools just want the default single vhost
> thread per dev behavior then it will automatically be done here. If the
> tools are using the newer ioctls that have already created the workers
> then we also detect that here and do nothing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>

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