Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] virtio-fs: shared file system for virtual machines

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Tue Sep 03 2019 - 10:08:04 EST


On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:31:38AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

[..]
> + /* TODO lock */
> give me pause.
>
> Cleanup generally seems broken to me - what pauses the FS

I am looking into device removal aspect of it now. Thinking of adding
a reference count to virtiofs device and possibly also a bit flag to
indicate if device is still alive. That way, we should be able to cleanup
device more gracefully.

>
> What about the rest of TODOs in that file?

I will also take a closer look at TODOs now. Better device cleanup path
might get rid of some of them. Some of them might not be valid anymore.

>
> use of usleep is hacky - can't we do better e.g. with a
> completion?

Agreed.

Thanks
Vivek