Re: [RFC PATCH 24/35] Add support for Xen event channels.

From: Keir Fraser
Date: Sat May 13 2006 - 09:07:09 EST



On 13 May 2006, at 13:27, Andrew Morton wrote:


+ init_evtchn_cpu_bindings();
+
+ /* No VIRQ or IPI bindings. */
+ for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) {

Using NR_CPUS is a little... old-fashioned. I'd suggest a sweep through
all the Xen code, look for places where it should be using
for_each_foo_cpu().

Actually that's a particularly good catch in this case, since we use per_cpu() inside the loop and that's only well defined for cpu_possible_map. Oops.

The elusive users of ring.h are our split device drivers. It hides a bunch of details about muxing requests and responses on the same ring, and notification thresholds. There are a few other places we have ring buffers but they are sufficiently simple that implementing in place is clearer.

Thanks,
Keir

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