Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations

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On Fri, 8 May 2009 10:18:22 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:37:06PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 May 2009 11:40:39 pm Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations,
> > > and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI
> > > needs to know the total number of vectors upfront.
> >
> > Hmm, I have a similar need for a dev to vq mapping (debugging stats). 
> > How's this as a common basis?
>
> This helps. Should I redo mine on top of this?

Yep, it should make your smaller as well.

> >  void vring_del_virtqueue(struct virtqueue *vq)
> >  {
> > +	list_del(&vq->list);
> >  	kfree(to_vvq(vq));
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vring_del_virtqueue);
>
> I note lack of locking here. This is okay in practice as
> drivers don't really call find/del vq in parallel,
> but making this explicit with find_vqs will be best, yes?

Yes, and in fact a rough look at your patch reveals that we don't actually 
need del_vq: now we track them, we can just do that as part of vdev 
destruction, right?

If you agree, please do that patch first, then do the find_vqs change on top of 
that.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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