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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Jake Oshins <jakeo@microsoft.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	"apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
	"vkuznets@redhat.com" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
	"bhelgaas@google.com" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 4/4] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 21:43:32 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1508032142500.3825@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM2PR0301MB1232A1E50FA39BEAB5707FEDAB770@DM2PR0301MB1232.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>

On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Jake Oshins wrote:

> I do have a question about your last point, though.  If I build this
> into the kernel, it will need to depend on sending and receiving
> messages through the hv_vmbus driver, which isn't built in.  It

Fair enough. I missed that detail.

> seemed like the indirection and glue code necessary to make that
> work would be almost as big as this entire implementation (which
> admittedly isn't very big.)  If you prefer that, I'll do it.  But it
> would make more sense to me to refactor this a bit more so that
> functions like the one above are exported rather than putting
> hv_pcie_init_irq_domain and hv_pcie_free_irq_domain into the kernel
> itself.  Would that work?

Yes.

Thanks,

	tglx

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-03 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-02  0:54 [PATCH 0/4] New Paravirtual front-end for PCI in a Hyper-V VM jakeo
2015-08-02  0:54 ` [PATCH 1/4] drivers:hv: Export a function that maps Linux CPU num onto Hyper-V proc num jakeo
2015-08-02  0:54 ` [PATCH 2/4] drivers:hv: Define the channel type for Hyper-V PCI Express pass-through jakeo
2015-08-02  0:54 ` [PATCH 3/4] drivers:x86:pci: Make it possible to implement a PCI MSI IRQ Domain in a module jakeo
2015-08-02  0:54 ` [PATCH 4/4] drivers:pci:hv: New paravirtual PCI front-end for Hyper-V VMs jakeo
2015-08-02  8:47   ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-08-03 19:19     ` Jake Oshins
2015-08-03 19:43       ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2015-08-03  9:18   ` Paul Bolle
2015-08-03  9:52     ` Dan Carpenter

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