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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add kvm_set_boot_cpu_id() API.
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:31:28 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A474680.4010602@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090628093313.GM20289@redhat.com>

On 06/28/2009 12:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:29:26PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 06/25/2009 03:21 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>>      
>>> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov<gleb@redhat.com>
>>>
>>>        
>> Why is it needed? (good changelog material).
>>
>>      
> OK.
>
>    

Well, why?

>>>        }
>>> -
>>> +
>>> +    kvm_set_boot_cpu_id(0);
>>>
>>>        
>> You're not testing for failure.  Doesn't matter here because it's the
>> default, but then you can omit the call entirely.
>>
>>      
> This is a place holder. The patch adds an interface but doesn't add any
> user if this line is omitted. As you said there is no need to check for
> failure in this case, if we do we will not be able to run on older
> kernels.
>    

It's also good to call the new API as a way of exercising it.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-28 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-25 12:21 [PATCH] Add kvm_set_boot_cpu_id() API Gleb Natapov
2009-06-28  9:29 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-28  9:33   ` Gleb Natapov
2009-06-28 10:31     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-28 12:25       ` Gleb Natapov

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