Lock protection is needed during the vhost notifies the application of device readiness, so the first patch is to add lock protection. After performing locking, existed async vhost registration functions will cause deadlock, as they acquire lock too. So the second patch is to provide unsafe registration functions to support calling within vhost callback functions.
Jiayu Hu (2): vhost: fix lock on device readiness notification vhost: add thread unsafe async registration functions doc/guides/prog_guide/vhost_lib.rst | 12 +++ lib/vhost/rte_vhost_async.h | 42 ++++++++++ lib/vhost/version.map | 4 + lib/vhost/vhost.c | 161 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 5 +- 5 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4
