On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 16:16 +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
> The kernel needs sometime to be able to cancel an ongoing command.
>
> For instance, if the virtio-rng device uses the egd backend
> and this backend doesn't provide data, the buffer provided by the
> kernel is kept as long as it is needed.
>
> On the kernel side, a read blocks until the buffer returns from QEMU.
>
> As the read is done with a mutex held, all the hw_random interface
> hangs and we cannot switch to another hw_random backend.
>
> So this series adds a control queue to the virtio-rng device to allow
> to flush the virtio-rng input queue to release the kernel mutex and
> to allow to switch to another device.
>
> The kernel side series can be found at:
>
> https://github.com/vivier/linux/commits/virtio-rng-ctrl
Did you submit the kernel series too? Can you please CC me to it?
This will need spec changes as well, can you please point me to them
too?
I also recall a previous discussion about this, but my search-fu is
failing to find it...
Amit
