Jason,
On Mon, Nov 29 2021 at 10:01, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:26:11AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> After looking at all the call sites again, there is no real usage for
>> this local index variable.
>>
>> If anything needs the index of a descriptor then it's available in the
>> descriptor itself. That won't change because the low level message write
>> code needs the index too and the only accessible storage there is
>> msi_desc.
>
> Oh, that makes it simpler, just use the current desc->index as the
> input to the xa_for_each_start() and then there should be no need of
> hidden state?
That works for alloc, but on free that's going to end up badly.
>> What for? The usage sites should not have to care about the storage
>> details of a facility they are using.
>
> Generally for_each things shouldn't have hidden state that prevents
> them from being nested. It is just an unexpected design pattern..
I'm not seeing any sensible use case for:
msi_for_each_desc(dev)
msi_for_each_desc(dev)
If that ever comes forth, I'm happy to debate this further :)
Thanks,
tglx
