From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D5FC433FF for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 06:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA402087E for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 06:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2389225AbfHBG7P (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 02:59:15 -0400 Received: from mail-il-dmz.mellanox.com ([193.47.165.129]:39032 "EHLO mellanox.co.il" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389201AbfHBG7O (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Aug 2019 02:59:14 -0400 Received: from Internal Mail-Server by MTLPINE2 (envelope-from parav@mellanox.com) with ESMTPS (AES256-SHA encrypted); 2 Aug 2019 09:59:09 +0300 Received: from sw-mtx-036.mtx.labs.mlnx (sw-mtx-036.mtx.labs.mlnx [10.12.150.149]) by labmailer.mlnx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id x726x7pW004367; Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:59:08 +0300 From: Parav Pandit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, wankhede@nvidia.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: parav@mellanox.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com, cohuck@redhat.com, cjia@nvidia.com Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Simplify mtty driver and mdev core Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 01:59:03 -0500 Message-Id: <20190802065905.45239-1-parav@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.19.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org Currently mtty sample driver uses mdev state and UUID in convoluated way to generate an interrupt. It uses several translations from mdev_state to mdev_device to mdev uuid. After which it does linear search of long uuid comparision to find out mdev_state in mtty_trigger_interrupt(). mdev_state is already available while generating interrupt from which all such translations are done to reach back to mdev_state. This translations are done during interrupt generation path. This is unnecessary and reduandant. Hence, Patch-1 simplifies mtty sample driver to directly use mdev_state. Patch-2, Since no production driver uses mdev_uuid(), and mdev's name is already available using core kernel dev_name(), simplifies and removes redandant mdev_uuid() exported symbol. Parav Pandit (2): vfio-mdev/mtty: Simplify interrupt generation vfio/mdev: Removed unused and redundant API for mdev name drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 6 ------ include/linux/mdev.h | 1 - samples/vfio-mdev/mtty.c | 39 +++++++---------------------------- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 2.21.0.777.g83232e3864