Re: [PATCH v9 05/13] iommu/amd: Add function copy_dev_tables()

Baoquan He
2017-08-04T13:00:51Z

On 08/04/17 at 02:51pm, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:30:39PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> > Sorry, I don't get 'this one' meaning, are you suggesting the copy for
> > loop should be take out of the iommu for loop?
> >
> > About the temporary copy of the old device-table, you can see in patch
> > 7/13, if irq sanity check failed, it return -1. This return could happen
> > in the middle of copy. So I think we should do a whole successful copy,
> > or don't copy at all. It might not be good do half copy.
>
> No, I mean that you should move the copy of the complete device-table
> out of the for_each_iommu() loop. Currently you make sure you copy only
> once with the 'copied' flag, but that is not necessary if you move the
> code behind the loop.

Ok, will do. Thanks!
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