Re: [PATCH 1/6] vhost: get rid of vhost_poll_flush() wrapper

From: Mike Christie
Date: Fri Dec 03 2021 - 12:45:46 EST


On 11/16/21 8:33 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 06:29:58PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
>> vhost_poll_flush() is a simple wrapper around vhost_work_dev_flush().
>> It gives wrong impression that we are doing some work over vhost_poll,
>> while in fact it flushes vhost_poll->dev.
>> It only complicate understanding of the code and leads to mistakes
>> like flushing the same vhost_dev several times in a row.
>>
>> Just remove vhost_poll_flush() and call vhost_work_dev_flush() directly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <arbn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/vhost/net.c   |  4 ++--
>> drivers/vhost/test.c  |  2 +-
>> drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 12 ++----------
>> drivers/vhost/vsock.c |  2 +-
>> 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> Adding Mike since these changes could be relevant for "[PATCH V4 00/12] vhost: multiple worker support" [1] series.
>
I reworked my patches to work with this set and it might make them
a little nicer, because I have less functions to port.

Andrey, please cc me when you repost and I'll send my patches over
your set, or if it's going to take you a while I can help you. I
handled the review comments for the flush related patches and I can
just post them.