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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>,
	hch@infradead.org, stefanha@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	sgarzare@redhat.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	brauner@kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Use copy_process in vhost layer
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 14:15:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230311141346-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgenic8Ba1WxNP=9YJXk78k9Sg6R7RLkhduYjtVy2gdkg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 09:21:14AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:04 PM Mike Christie
> <michael.christie@oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > The following patches were made over Linus's tree and apply over next. They
> > allow the vhost layer to use copy_process instead of using
> > workqueue_structs to create worker threads for VM's devices.
> 
> Ok, all these patches looked fine to me from a quick scan - nothing
> that I reacted to as objectionable, and several of them looked like
> nice cleanups.
> 
> The only one I went "Why do you do it that way" for was in 10/11
> (entirely internal to vhost, so I don't feel too strongly about this)
> how you made "struct vhost_worker" be a pointer in "struct vhost_dev".
> 
> It _looks_ to me like it could just have been an embedded structure
> rather than a separate allocation.
> 
> IOW, why do
> 
>    vhost_dev->worker
> 
> instead of doing
> 
>   vhost_dev.worker
> 
> and just having it all in the same allocation?
> 
> Not a big deal. Maybe you wanted the 'test if worker pointer is NULL'
> code to stay around, and basically use that pointer as a flag too. Or
> maybe there is some other reason you want to keep that separate..
> 
>                Linus

I agree with Linus here, slightly better embedded, but no huge deal.
Which tree is this going on?
If not mine here's my ack:

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

-- 
MST


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-11 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 22:03 [PATCH 00/11] Use copy_process in vhost layer Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 01/11] csky: Remove kernel_thread declaration Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 02/11] kernel: Allow a kernel thread's name to be set in copy_process Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 03/11] kthread: Pass in the thread's name during creation Mike Christie
2023-03-11  8:53   ` Christian Brauner
2023-03-11 16:11     ` michael.christie
2023-03-12  1:48       ` Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 04/11] kernel: Make io_thread and kthread bit fields Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 05/11] fork/vm: Move common PF_IO_WORKER behavior to new flag Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 06/11] fork: add kernel_clone_args flag to not dup/clone files Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 07/11] fork: Add kernel_clone_args flag to ignore signals Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 08/11] fork: allow kernel code to call copy_process Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 09/11] vhost_task: Allow vhost layer to use copy_process Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 10/11] vhost: move worker thread fields to new struct Mike Christie
2023-03-10 22:03 ` [PATCH 11/11] vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads Mike Christie
2023-03-11 17:21 ` [PATCH 00/11] Use copy_process in vhost layer Linus Torvalds
2023-03-11 17:49   ` Mike Christie
2023-03-11 19:15   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2023-03-12 10:07 ` Christian Brauner

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