Re: [PATCH] virtio_blk: allow re-reading config space at runtime

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 05:29:26PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Yes but in that specific situation (double schedule before
> it runs once) discarding one change notification
> would not hurt at all.

Except that you can't easily do it.  We can't simply reuse a work
structure embedded in say struct virtio_blk without first doing a
flush_work_sync/cancel_work_sync to remove it from the internal
workqueue.c queues.  And those calls can sleep and thus can't be called
from interrupt context either.

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