Re: [RFC-v4 2/3] vhost: make vhost work queue visible

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 06:55:37AM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
> 
> The vhost work queue allows processing to be done in vhost worker thread
> context, which uses the owner process mm.  Access to the vring and guest
> memory is typically only possible from vhost worker context so it is
> useful to allow work to be queued directly by users.
> 
> Currently vhost_net only uses the poll wrappers which do not expose the
> work queue functions.  However, for tcm_vhost (vhost_scsi) it will be
> necessary to queue custom work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

Applied to vhost-next.

> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c |    5 ++---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.h |    3 +++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index 94dbd25..1aab08b 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static int vhost_poll_wakeup(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync,
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void vhost_work_init(struct vhost_work *work, vhost_work_fn_t fn)
> +void vhost_work_init(struct vhost_work *work, vhost_work_fn_t fn)
>  {
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&work->node);
>  	work->fn = fn;
> @@ -137,8 +137,7 @@ void vhost_poll_flush(struct vhost_poll *poll)
>  	vhost_work_flush(poll->dev, &poll->work);
>  }
>  
> -static inline void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev,
> -				    struct vhost_work *work)
> +void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_work *work)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> index 07b9763..1125af3 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.h
> @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ struct vhost_poll {
>  	struct vhost_dev	 *dev;
>  };
>  
> +void vhost_work_init(struct vhost_work *work, vhost_work_fn_t fn);
> +void vhost_work_queue(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_work *work);
> +
>  void vhost_poll_init(struct vhost_poll *poll, vhost_work_fn_t fn,
>  		     unsigned long mask, struct vhost_dev *dev);
>  void vhost_poll_start(struct vhost_poll *poll, struct file *file);
> -- 
> 1.7.2.5