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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 04/13] vhost: cleanup fetch_buf return code handling
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 05:01:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200604050011-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7221afa5-bafd-f19b-9cfd-cc51a8d3b321@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 03:29:02PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> 
> On 2020/6/2 下午9:06, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Return code of fetch_buf is confusing, so callers resort to
> > tricks to get to sane values. Let's switch to something standard:
> > 0 empty, >0 non-empty, <0 error.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
> >   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> Why not squashing this into patch 2 or 3?
> 
> Thanks

It makes the tricky patches smaller. I'll consider it,
for now this split is also because patches 1-3 have
already been tested.

-- 
MST


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-04  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-02 13:05 [PATCH RFC 00/13] vhost: format independence Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:05 ` [PATCH RFC 01/13] vhost: option to fetch descriptors through an independent struct Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  7:13   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-03  9:48     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03 12:04       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-07 13:59         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:05 ` [PATCH RFC 02/13] vhost: use batched version by default Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  7:15   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 03/13] vhost: batching fetches Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  7:27   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04  8:59     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-05  3:40       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-07 13:57         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-08  3:35           ` Jason Wang
2020-06-08  6:01             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 04/13] vhost: cleanup fetch_buf return code handling Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  7:29   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04  9:01     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 05/13] vhost/net: pass net specific struct pointer Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 06/13] vhost: reorder functions Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 07/13] vhost: format-independent API for used buffers Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  7:58   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04  9:03     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-04  9:18       ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04 10:17         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 08/13] vhost/net: convert to new API: heads->bufs Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-03  8:11   ` Jason Wang
2020-06-04  9:05     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 09/13] vhost/net: avoid iov length math Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 10/13] vhost/test: convert to the buf API Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 11/13] vhost/scsi: switch to buf APIs Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-05  8:36   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 12/13] vhost/vsock: switch to the buf API Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-06-05  8:36   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-06-02 13:06 ` [PATCH RFC 13/13] vhost: drop head based APIs Michael S. Tsirkin

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