Re: [PATCH 7/7] vhost-test: drop flush after vhost_dev_cleanup

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On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 10:45 AM Mike Christie
<michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The flush after vhost_dev_cleanup is not needed because:
>
> 1. It doesn't do anything. vhost_dev_cleanup will stop the worker thread
> so the flush call will just return since the worker has not device.
>
> 2. It's not needed. The comment about jobs re-queueing themselves does
> not look correct because handle_vq does not requeue work.

Similar to the previous patch, I wonder if it's the credit from
vhost_dev_cleanup().

Thanks

>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/vhost/test.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/test.c b/drivers/vhost/test.c
> index d4f63068d762..57e24eceff27 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/test.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/test.c
> @@ -158,9 +158,6 @@ static int vhost_test_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *f)
>         vhost_test_flush(n);
>         vhost_dev_stop(&n->dev);
>         vhost_dev_cleanup(&n->dev);
> -       /* We do an extra flush before freeing memory,
> -        * since jobs can re-queue themselves. */
> -       vhost_test_flush(n);
>         kfree(n);
>         return 0;
>  }
> --
> 2.25.1
>

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