Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 5/7] vpci: fix execution of long running operations

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 08.11.18 at 13:47, <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My point would be that on x86 I think the only way to have preemptible
> long-running operations inside of Xen is to block the guest vCPU and
> run them in a tasklet, or at least this seems the less invasive one.
> 
> Do you still have objections to this patch/approach?

Well, I still don't understand why you think you need to introduce
a tasklet in the first place. That's because I still don't understand
what you think is wrong with the current approach (leaving aside
the exact placement of where the vpci hook needs to be called).

Jan



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