Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] vhost: Introduce vhost_worker_ops in vhost_worker

From: Mike Christie
Date: Mon Apr 07 2025 - 12:20:48 EST


On 4/7/25 3:17 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 06:02:48PM +0800, Cindy Lu wrote:
>> Abstract vhost worker operations (create/stop/wakeup) into an ops
>> structure to prepare for kthread mode support.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I worry about the overhead of indirect calls here.
>
> We have the wrappers, and only two options,
> why did you decide to add it like this,
> with ops?
>
That was from my review comment. Originally, I thought we
could share more code. For example I thought
vhost_run_work_kthread_list from patch 2 in this thread and
kernel/vhost_task.c:vhost_task_fn could be merged.