From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751478AbdBWQBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:01:07 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48208 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750916AbdBWQBF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:01:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:52:35 +0100 From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Jones , Marc Zyngier , Christian Borntraeger , Cornelia Huck , James Hogan , Paul Mackerras , Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: add __kvm_request_needs_mb Message-ID: <20170223155235.GD8342@potion> References: <20170216160449.13094-1-rkrcmar@redhat.com> <20170216160449.13094-5-rkrcmar@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.27]); Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:52:40 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2017-02-23 12:01+0100, Paolo Bonzini: > On 16/02/2017 17:04, Radim Krčmář wrote: >> A macro to optimize requests that do not need a memory barrier because >> they have no dependencies. An architecture can implement a function >> that says which requests do not need memory barriers when handling them. >> >> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář > > I would leave this for a separate series, otherwise looks nice (though I > was skeptical at first ;)). Ok, I'll first post just the renaming and base other ideas from related thread on it.