Re: [KVM PATCH v6 3/4] KVM: Fix races in irqfd using new eventfd_kref_getinterface

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/29/2009 07:52 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> >    One idea I had to make it even clearer was to have a shutdown list
> > of irqfds per-kvm, together with the items list, and make work_struct for
> > shutdown global, not per-irqfd.  We can then unconditionally do
> > list_move + schedule_work to shut down an irqfd, and it's safe to do
> > even if it is already on the shutdown list - it just gets moved to tail.
> >
> >      
>
> Hmm..I'm not sure that churn really buys us anything, tho.  Technically
> the "active" bit is redundant with list_del_init()+list_empty() that I
> employed in previous versions.  However, I made it explicit with the
> active bit to be more self-documenting.  IMO, the latest code is pretty
> clear, and the change you are proposing is moving towards a slightly
> trickier variant like I originally had.  I'd say "lets leave this as is".
>    

Could retain self documentation by introducing a helper irqfd_active() 
which does the list_blah() magic.

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