Re: [RFC] virtio: Support releasing lock during kick

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On 06/29/2010 10:08 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>
> Is it incorrect to have the following pattern?
> spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock);
> spin_unlock(q->queue_lock);
> spin_lock(q->queue_lock);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock);
>    

Perfectly legitimate.  spin_lock_irqsave() is equivalent to 
local_irq_save() followed by spin_lock() (with the potential 
optimization that we can service interrupts while spinning).

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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