From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Takuya Yoshikawa <yoshikawa_takuya_b1@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:23:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <568E74C4.5000407@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1452176228-8484-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On 01/07/2016 03:17 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> There is no need for request bits to differ across architectures. Only
> a handful of them are architecture-independent, the others can all share
> bits 8-31 with overlap.
>
> Leaving room for more architecture-independent bits means that actually
> no bits are freed, but the cleanup is useful anyway IMO.
>
> Paolo Bonzini (4):
> KVM: Remove unused KVM_REQ_KICK to save a bit in
> KVM: document which architecture uses each request bit
> KVM: renumber architecture-dependent requests
> KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++
> arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 ++++
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 10 ++++++++++
> include/linux/kvm_host.h | 39 +++++--------------------------------
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 10 ----------
> 6 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
For the idea:
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
but no deep review so far.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-07 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-07 14:17 [PATCH 0/4] Reorganize request bits Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 14:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Remove unused KVM_REQ_KICK to save a bit in Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 14:26 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-01-07 14:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: document which architecture uses each request bit Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 14:38 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-01-07 14:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: renumber architecture-dependent requests Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 15:27 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-01-07 15:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 15:50 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-01-08 6:01 ` Takuya Yoshikawa
2016-01-07 14:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: move architecture-dependent requests to arch/ Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 15:54 ` Christian Borntraeger
2016-01-07 16:04 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-07 14:23 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
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