Re: [RFC PATCH v4 11/20] vhost: Route host->guest notification through shadow virtqueue

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在 2021/10/14 下午11:58, Eugenio Perez Martin 写道:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:49 AM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

在 2021/10/1 下午3:05, Eugenio Pérez 写道:
This will make qemu aware of the device used buffers, allowing it to
write the guest memory with its contents if needed.

Since the use of vhost_virtqueue_start can unmasks and discard call
events, vhost_virtqueue_start should be modified in one of these ways:
* Split in two: One of them uses all logic to start a queue with no
    side effects for the guest, and another one tha actually assumes that
    the guest has just started the device. Vdpa should use just the
    former.
* Actually store and check if the guest notifier is masked, and do it
    conditionally.
* Left as it is, and duplicate all the logic in vhost-vdpa.

Btw, the log looks not clear. I guess this patch goes for method 3. If
yes, we need explain it and why.

Thanks

Sorry about being unclear. This commit log (and code) just exposes the
problem and the solutions I came up with but does nothing to solve it.
I'm actually going for method 3 for the next series but I'm open to
doing it differently.


That's fine, but need to doc that method 3 is something that is done in the patch.

Thanks



Signed-off-by: Eugenio Pérez<eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx>

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