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Tsirkin" , Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= , Jason Wang , Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , Zhang Chen , Peter Xu , Anthony Perard , Stefano Stabellini , Leonardo Bras , Pavel Dovgalyuk , Fam Zheng , Fabiano Rosas Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] virtio-scsi: replace AioContext lock with tmf_bh_lock Message-ID: References: <20231129195553.942921-1-stefanha@redhat.com> <20231129195553.942921-2-stefanha@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20231129195553.942921-2-stefanha@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.11.54.8 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=kwolf@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Am 29.11.2023 um 20:55 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben: > Protect the Task Management Function BH state with a lock. The TMF BH > runs in the main loop thread. An IOThread might process a TMF at the > same time as the TMF BH is running. Therefore tmf_bh_list and tmf_bh > must be protected by a lock. > > Run TMF request completion in the IOThread using aio_wait_bh_oneshot(). > This avoids more locking to protect the virtqueue and SCSI layer state. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi The second part reminds me that the implicit protection of the virtqueue and SCSI data structures by having all accesses in a single thread is hard to review and I think we wanted to put some assertions there to check that we're really running in the right thread. I don't think we have done that so far, so I suppose after this patch would be the place in the series to add them, before we remove the protection by the AioContext lock? Kevin