From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
Christoph Egger <chegger@amazon.de>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv6 2/5] gnttab: introduce per-active entry locks
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:49:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5538F867.7010707@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553904DC020000780007521E@mail.emea.novell.com>
On 23/04/15 13:42, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> @@ -3130,7 +3167,9 @@ grant_table_destroy(
>>
>> if ( t == NULL )
>> return;
>> -
>> +
>> + spin_lock(&t->lock);
>> +
>> for ( i = 0; i < nr_grant_frames(t); i++ )
>> free_xenheap_page(t->shared_raw[i]);
>> xfree(t->shared_raw);
>> @@ -3147,6 +3186,8 @@ grant_table_destroy(
>> free_xenheap_page(t->status[i]);
>> xfree(t->status);
>>
>> + spin_unlock(&t->lock);
>
> Iirc I asked this before - do you really think these are needed? Because
> again - if they are, that would seem to be a separate bug fix.
It looks unnecessary to me. Unless Matt can explain why he added it,
I'll drop it.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-23 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-22 16:00 [PATCHv6 0/6] gnttab: Improve scaleability David Vrabel
2015-04-22 16:00 ` [PATCHv6 1/5] gnttab: add locking documentation David Vrabel
2015-04-22 16:00 ` [PATCHv6 2/5] gnttab: introduce per-active entry locks David Vrabel
2015-04-23 12:42 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-23 13:49 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2015-04-22 16:00 ` [PATCHv6 3/5] gnttab: split grant table lock into table and maptrack locks David Vrabel
2015-04-23 15:04 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-29 10:53 ` David Vrabel
2015-04-29 11:12 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-22 16:00 ` [PATCHv6 4/5] gnttab: remove unnecessary grant table locks David Vrabel
2015-04-23 11:23 ` Tim Deegan
2015-04-23 15:31 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-22 16:00 ` [PATCHv6 5/5] gnttab: use per-VCPU maptrack free lists David Vrabel
2015-04-23 16:11 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-23 16:29 ` David Vrabel
2015-04-24 6:44 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-24 9:09 ` Malcolm Crossley
2015-04-24 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
2015-04-24 10:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-04-24 10:21 ` Malcolm Crossley
2015-04-24 12:52 ` Jan Beulich
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