RE: [PATCH V2 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants

[Paul Durrant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell
> Sent: 09 December 2011 08:37
> To: annie li
> Cc: Paul Durrant; xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx; jeremy@xxxxxxxx;
> kurt.hackel@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] xen/granttable: Support sub-page grants
> 
> On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 07:45 +0000, annie li wrote:
> >
> > On 2011-12-9 13:19, annie li wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > >
> > >>>> #define get_free_entry()    get_free_entries(1)
> > > Is this necessary? Maybe you defined this to keep consistence
> with
> > > put_free_entry(ref)?
> > > But other functions such as gnttab_grant_foreign_transfer and
> > > gnttab_grant_foreign_access all call get_free_entries(1). Maybe
> it
> > > is better to keep initial get_free_entries(1) code?
> > Another approach is doing those work in a separate patch --
> changing
> > get_free_entries to get_free_entry in following 4 functions:
> 
> I think you shouldn't get too bogged down in get_free_entry() vs
> get_free_entries(1) for the purposes of this patch series.
> 

Annie,

  Yes, don't worry about get_free_entry(). I only defined it for the sake of symmetry in the code I posted.

  Paul
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