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Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:27:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sgarzare-redhat ([193.207.223.215]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a640c23a62f3a-b842a4cfd97sm787982066b.36.2026.01.08.06.27.17 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:27:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 15:27:04 +0100 From: Stefano Garzarella To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Cong Wang , Jonathan Corbet , Olivia Mackall , Herbert Xu , Jason Wang , Paolo Bonzini , Stefan Hajnoczi , Eugenio =?utf-8?B?UMOpcmV6?= , "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" , Gerd Hoffmann , Xuan Zhuo , Marek Szyprowski , Robin Murphy , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Simon Horman , Petr Tesarik , Leon Romanovsky , Jason Gunthorpe , Bartosz Golaszewski , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/15] vsock/virtio: reorder fields to reduce padding Message-ID: References: <20260108091514-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260108091514-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 09:17:49AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 03:11:36PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 03:23:41AM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> > Reorder struct virtio_vsock fields to place the DMA buffer (event_list) >> > last. This eliminates the padding from aligning the struct size on >> > ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin >> > --- >> > net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 8 +++++--- >> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> > >> > diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c >> > index ef983c36cb66..964d25e11858 100644 >> > --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c >> > +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c >> > @@ -60,9 +60,7 @@ struct virtio_vsock { >> > */ >> > struct mutex event_lock; >> > bool event_run; >> > - __dma_from_device_group_begin(); >> > - struct virtio_vsock_event event_list[8]; >> > - __dma_from_device_group_end(); >> > + >> > u32 guest_cid; >> > bool seqpacket_allow; >> > >> > @@ -76,6 +74,10 @@ struct virtio_vsock { >> > */ >> > struct scatterlist *out_sgs[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1]; >> > struct scatterlist out_bufs[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1]; >> > + >> >> IIUC we would like to have these fields always on the bottom of this struct, >> so would be better to add a comment here to make sure we will not add other >> fields in the future after this? > >not necessarily - you can add fields after, too - it's just that >__dma_from_device_group_begin already adds a bunch of padding, so adding >fields in this padding is cheaper. > Okay, I see. > >do we really need to add comments to teach people about the art of >struct packing? I can do it later if you prefer, I don't want to block this work, but yes, I'd prefer to have a comment because otherwise I'll have to ask every time to avoid, especially for new contributors xD > >> Maybe we should also add a comment about the `ev`nt_lock` requirement >> we >> have in the section above. >> >> Thanks, >> Stefano > >hmm which requirement do you mean? That `event_list` must be accessed with `event_lock`. So maybe we can move also `event_lock` and `event_run`, so we can just move that comment. I mean something like this: @@ -74,6 +67,15 @@ struct virtio_vsock { */ struct scatterlist *out_sgs[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1]; struct scatterlist out_bufs[MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1]; + + /* The following fields are protected by event_lock. + * vqs[VSOCK_VQ_EVENT] must be accessed with event_lock held. + */ + struct mutex event_lock; + bool event_run; + __dma_from_device_group_begin(); + struct virtio_vsock_event event_list[8]; + __dma_from_device_group_end(); }; static u32 virtio_transport_get_local_cid(void) Thanks, Stefano