From: "Zhao, Yu" <yu.zhao@intel.com>
To: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/8] PCI: initialize and release SR-IOV capability
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:28:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C30D4F.2050903@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090319182016.33a9a1f2@hobbes.lan>
Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:53:12 -0600
> Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 03:25:42PM +0800, Yu Zhao wrote:
>>> +config PCI_IOV
>>> + bool "PCI IOV support"
>>> + depends on PCI
>>> + help
>>> + PCI-SIG I/O Virtualization (IOV) Specifications support.
>>> + Single Root IOV: allows the creation of virtual PCI
>>> devices
>>> + that share the physical resources from a real device.
>>> +
>>> + When in doubt, say N.
>> It's certainly shorter than my text, which is nice. But I think it
>> still has too much spec-ese and not enough explanation. How about:
>>
>> help
>> I/O Virtualization is a PCI feature supported by some
>> devices which allows them to create virtual devices which share their
>> physical resources.
>>
>> If unsure, say N.
>>
>>> + list_for_each_entry(pdev, &dev->bus->devices, bus_list)
>>> + if (pdev->is_physfn)
>>> + break;
>>> + if (list_empty(&dev->bus->devices) || !pdev->is_physfn)
>>> + pdev = NULL;
>> This is still wrong. If the 'break' condition is not hit, pdev is
>> pointing to garbage, not to the last pci_dev in the list.
>>
>>> @@ -270,6 +278,7 @@ struct pci_dev {
>>> struct list_head msi_list;
>>> #endif
>>> struct pci_vpd *vpd;
>>> + struct pci_sriov *sriov; /* SR-IOV capability
>>> related */
>> Should be ifdeffed?
>
> Ok Yu, I'm ready to apply this set, can you send an updated one with
> the fixes Matthew mentioned?
Thanks, Jesse. I updated this one according to Matthew's comments and
respan others in patchset v12 so they can be cleanly applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-11 7:25 [PATCH v11 0/8] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 1/8] PCI: initialize and release SR-IOV capability Yu Zhao
2009-03-19 19:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-20 1:20 ` Jesse Barnes
2009-03-20 1:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-03-20 3:28 ` Zhao, Yu [this message]
2009-03-20 2:06 ` Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 2/8] PCI: restore saved SR-IOV state Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 3/8] PCI: reserve bus range for SR-IOV device Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 4/8] PCI: centralize device setup code Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 5/8] PCI: add SR-IOV API for Physical Function driver Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 6/8] PCI: handle SR-IOV Virtual Function Migration Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 7/8] PCI: document SR-IOV sysfs entries Yu Zhao
2009-03-11 7:25 ` [PATCH v11 8/8] PCI: manual for SR-IOV user and driver developer Yu Zhao
2009-03-17 1:55 ` [PATCH v11 0/8] PCI: Linux kernel SR-IOV support Yu Zhao
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