Re: [PATCH 08/18] virtiofs: Drain all pending requests during ->remove time

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 10:17:18 EST


On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 03:48:49PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > +static void virtio_fs_drain_queue(struct virtio_fs_vq *fsvq)
> > +{
> > + WARN_ON(fsvq->in_flight < 0);
> > +
> > + /* Wait for in flight requests to finish.*/
> > + while (1) {
> > + spin_lock(&fsvq->lock);
> > + if (!fsvq->in_flight) {
> > + spin_unlock(&fsvq->lock);
> > + break;
> > + }
> > + spin_unlock(&fsvq->lock);
> > + usleep_range(1000, 2000);
> > + }
>
> I think all contexts that call this allow sleeping so we could avoid
> usleep here.

usleep_range() is supposed to be used from non-atomic context.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/timers/timers-howto.rst

What construct you are thinking of?

Vivek