Subject: Re: [v5 15/19] KVM: eventfd: add irq bypass consumer management
To: Eric Auger <eric.auger@linaro.org>, Feng Wu <feng.wu@intel.com>,
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:47:23 +0200
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 13/07/2015 15:16, Eric Auger wrote:
>> >  
>> > +	irqfd->consumer.token = (void *)irqfd->eventfd;
>> > +	kvm_arch_irq_consumer_init(&irqfd->consumer);
> what if the architecture does not implement kvm_arch_irq_consumer_init?
> 
> Also you are using here this single function kvm_arch_irq_consumer_init
> to do some irq bypass manager settings + attaching your
> irqfd->arch_update cb which does not really relate to IRQ bypass
> manager. I think I preferred the approach where start/top/add/del were
> exposed separately ([RFC v2 5/6] KVM: introduce kvm_arch functions for
> IRQ bypass).
> 
> Why not adding another kvm_arch_irq_routing_update then, not necessarily
> linked to irq bypass manager.

Yes, I also preferred the dummy kvm_arch_* functions to this approach
with an init function.  You'd have to add dummy init functions anyway
for non-ARM, non-x86 architectures.

Paolo
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