From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, david@redhat.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mgorman@techsingularity.net,
aarcange@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
liliang.opensource@gmail.com, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com, quan.xu@aliyun.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 16:06:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712160129-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1499863221-16206-6-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com>
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 08:40:18PM +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
> index 28b0e96..9f27101 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
> @@ -57,8 +57,28 @@ int virtqueue_add_sgs(struct virtqueue *vq,
> void *data,
> gfp_t gfp);
>
> +/* A desc with this init id is treated as an invalid desc */
> +#define VIRTQUEUE_DESC_ID_INIT UINT_MAX
> +int virtqueue_add_chain_desc(struct virtqueue *_vq,
> + uint64_t addr,
> + uint32_t len,
> + unsigned int *head_id,
> + unsigned int *prev_id,
> + bool in);
> +
> +int virtqueue_add_chain(struct virtqueue *_vq,
> + unsigned int head,
> + bool indirect,
> + struct vring_desc *indirect_desc,
> + void *data,
> + void *ctx);
> +
> bool virtqueue_kick(struct virtqueue *vq);
>
> +bool virtqueue_kick_sync(struct virtqueue *vq);
> +
> +bool virtqueue_kick_async(struct virtqueue *vq, wait_queue_head_t wq);
> +
> bool virtqueue_kick_prepare(struct virtqueue *vq);
>
> bool virtqueue_notify(struct virtqueue *vq);
I don't much care for this API. It does exactly what balloon needs,
but at cost of e.g. transparently busy-waiting. Unlikely to be
a good fit for anything else.
If you don't like my original _first/_next/_last, you will
need to come up with something else.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-12 12:40 [PATCH v12 0/8] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Wei Wang
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 1/8] virtio-balloon: deflate via a page list Wei Wang
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 2/8] virtio-balloon: coding format cleanup Wei Wang
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 3/8] Introduce xbitmap Wei Wang
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 4/8] xbitmap: add xb_find_next_bit() and xb_zero() Wei Wang
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 5/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_SG Wei Wang
2017-07-12 13:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-07-12 13:29 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-12 13:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 7:42 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-13 20:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-14 7:12 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-23 1:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-26 3:48 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-26 17:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-27 2:50 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-28 23:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-29 12:47 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-30 4:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-30 5:59 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-07-30 16:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-30 16:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-31 12:36 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-13 0:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 1:16 ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-13 4:21 ` kbuild test robot
2017-07-28 8:25 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-28 23:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 6/8] mm: support reporting free page blocks Wei Wang
2017-07-13 0:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 8:25 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-14 12:30 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 12:54 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-14 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-14 19:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-17 15:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-18 2:12 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-19 8:13 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-19 12:01 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-24 9:00 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-25 9:32 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-25 11:25 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-25 11:56 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-25 12:41 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-25 14:47 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-07-25 14:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-26 2:22 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-26 10:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-26 11:44 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-26 11:55 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-26 12:47 ` Wang, Wei W
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 7/8] mm: export symbol of next_zone and first_online_pgdat Wei Wang
2017-07-13 0:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 8:41 ` [virtio-dev] " Wei Wang
2017-07-14 12:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-07-12 12:40 ` [PATCH v12 8/8] virtio-balloon: VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_CMD_VQ Wei Wang
2017-07-13 0:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 8:46 ` Wei Wang
2017-07-13 17:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 0:14 ` [PATCH v12 0/8] Virtio-balloon Enhancement Michael S. Tsirkin
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