Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] libnvdimm: nd_region flush callback support

Jan Kara
2019-04-12T08:32:30Z

On Thu 11-04-19 07:51:48, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:09 PM Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> wrote:
> > + } else {
> > + if (nd_region->flush(nd_region))
> > + rc = -EIO;
>
> Given the common case wants to be fast and synchronous I think we
> should try to avoid retpoline overhead by default. So something like
> this:
>
> if (nd_region->flush == generic_nvdimm_flush)
> rc = generic_nvdimm_flush(...);

I'd either add a comment about avoiding retpoline overhead here or just
make ->flush == NULL mean generic_nvdimm_flush(). Just so that people don't
get confused by the code.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR