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Date:   Mon, 4 Jun 2018 15:52:31 +0200
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/10] vfio: ccw: Moving state change out of IRQ
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On Fri, 25 May 2018 12:21:09 +0200
Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Let's move the state change from the IRQ routine to the
> workqueue callback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_drv.c | 20 +++++++-------------
>  drivers/s390/cio/vfio_ccw_fsm.c | 14 ++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

This causes a change in behaviour for devices in the notoper state.

Now:
- vfio_ccw_sch_irq is called
- via the state machine, disabling the subchannel is (re-)triggered

With your patch:
- the work function is queued in any case; eventually, it will change
  the device's state to idle (unless we don't have an mdev at that
  point in time)
- completion is signaled

I'm not sure that's what we want.