Re: [PATCH v8 4/8] vhost: Introduce vhost_worker_ops in vhost_worker
From: Cindy Lu
Date: Tue Apr 08 2025 - 05:47:01 EST
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM Mike Christie
<michael.christie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Hi Mike
I guess you mean function vhost_run_work_list and vhost_run_work_kthread_list?
sure, I will try to merge these two functions in next version
Thanks
Cindy