RE: [RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding control

From: Wu, Feng
Date: Tue Jul 07 2015 - 07:33:50 EST




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> Subject: RE: [RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paolo Bonzini [mailto:pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 7:22 PM
> > To: Wu, Feng; Eric Auger; eric.auger@xxxxxx;
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> > Subject: Re: [RFC v2 3/6] irq: bypass: Extend skeleton for ARM forwarding
> > control
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> > On 07/07/2015 13:18, Wu, Feng wrote:
> > > Then I still need assign prod and de-assign prod in
> > > irq_bypass_register_consumer/irq_bypass_unregister_consumer, Right?
> > > Would you please share why this is better.
> >
> > The need to store the consumer->producer link seems to be unique to
> > posted interrupts. It is difficult to say without seeing the PI code,
> > but I prefer to keep the bypass manager as small as possible.
>
> Fine. I will follow your suggestion!

If using the following changes, how can we assign 'prod', we need to use
container_of to get struct kvm_kernel_irqfd and then refer to 'prod', but
we cannot do this in irq_bypass_register_consumer(), right? It is a
common API. But we can only get the associated producer info inside
bypass manager, right?

Thanks,
Feng

struct kvm_kernel_irqfd {

......

struct irq_bypass_consumer cons;
struct irq_bypass_producer *prod;
};


>
> Thanks,
> Feng
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> >
> > Paolo
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