Re: [RESEND PATCH v1 0/7]vhost: Add support of kthread API

From: Jason Wang
Date: Wed Sep 11 2024 - 21:47:48 EST


On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 3:02 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 11:20:30AM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> > If people are ok with something similar as in this patchset where
> > we have both vhost_tasks and kthreads, then I can send something.
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> It would be better, as you say, to modify the vhost_task code so it can
> emulate the kthread behavior. However, given that apparently some users
> are unhappy, what you describe would be a good stopgap solution
> until we have that.
>
> The main difficulty seems to be to describe what the
> behaviour is, exactly, so userspace can make informed
> decisions on what to use.

Exactly.

Thanks

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