Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] create a single workqueue for each vm to update vm irq routing table

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:58:53PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/11/2013 16:35, Avi Kivity ha scritto:
> >>>> If we want to ensure, we need to use a different mechanism for
> >>>> synchronization than the global RCU.  QRCU would work; readers are not
> >>>> wait-free but only if there is a concurrent synchronize_qrcu, which
> >>>> should be rare.
> >>> An alternative path is to convince ourselves that the hardware does not
> >>> provide the guarantees that the current code provides, and so we can
> >>> relax them.
> >> No, I think it's a reasonable guarantee to provide.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Because IIUC the semantics may depend not just on the interrupt
> controller, but also on the specific PCI device.  It seems safer to
> assume that at least one device/driver pair wants this to work.
> 
> (BTW, PCI memory writes are posted, but configuration writes are not).
> 
> Paolo

You can also do a PCI read and flush out the writes.