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From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
	wei.liu2@citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com,
	dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov, jbeulich@suse.com, keir@xen.org
Cc: elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com, dario.faggioli@citrix.com,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] sysctl: Add sysctl interface for querying PCI topology
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 13:05:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55240E67.1060005@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5524013E.7010507@citrix.com>

On 04/07/2015 12:09 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 06/04/15 23:12, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Changes in v6:
>> * Dropped continuations, the sysctl now returns after 64 iteration if necessary
> Why? The caller should reasonably expect a single hypercall to complete,
> not to have to reissue repeated to get all the data they want.

The caller is expected to restart from first_dev, not from beginning.

>
>> * -ENODEV returned if device is not found
> You don't actually break on -ENODEV, which causes the loop to continue
> to new devices and leave no hint as to which device doesn't exist.

Doh, I must have lost the break during various merges.

-boris

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-07 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-06 22:12 [PATCH v6 0/5] Display IO topology when PXM data is available (plus some cleanup) Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-06 22:12 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] sysctl: Make XEN_SYSCTL_numainfo a little more efficient Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-07 16:04   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-04-07 16:57     ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-07 17:04       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-04-07 17:28         ` Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-08 16:31           ` Andrew Cooper
2015-04-13 15:52       ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-15 12:29         ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-06 22:12 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] sysctl: Add sysctl interface for querying PCI topology Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-07 16:09   ` Andrew Cooper
2015-04-07 17:05     ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2015-04-07 17:22   ` Daniel De Graaf
2015-04-06 22:12 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] libxl/libxc: Move libxl_get_cpu_topology()'s hypercall buffer management to libxc Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-15 12:31   ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-06 22:12 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] libxl/libxc: Move libxl_get_numainfo()'s " Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-15 12:33   ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-06 22:12 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] libxl: Add interface for querying hypervisor about PCI topology Boris Ostrovsky
2015-04-15 12:35   ` Ian Campbell

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