Re: [PATCH] KVM: Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_harvested()

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Thu Sep 02 2021 - 16:13:57 EST


On Thu, Sep 02, 2021, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 06:46:14PM +0200, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> > >> Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Drop the unused function as reported by test bot.
> > >>
> > >> Your subject line says "Drop unused kvm_dirty_gfn_harvested()" while in
> > >> reallity you drop "kvm_dirty_gfn_invalid()".
> > >
> > > Heh, Peter already sent v2[*]. Though that's a good reminder that it's helpful
> > > to reviewers to respond to your own patch if there's a fatal mistake and you're
> > > going to immediately post a new version. For tiny patches it's not a big deal,
> > > but for larger patches it can avoid wasting reviewers' time.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed. It's also a good reminder for reviewers that inbox is best
> > treated like a stack and not like a queue :-)
>
> It should really be a queue, to be fair. :)

Ya, a queue plus a deferred work queue for things that can't be handled in
interrupt context ;-)