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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, Wenchao Xia <xiawenc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] libqblock draft code v1
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 11:23:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120802102329.GC27056@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501A4168.5040906@redhat.com>

On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:59:20AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/08/2012 09:57, Wenchao Xia ha scritto:
> >>> +int qbi_init(struct QBlockInfo *info)
> >>
> >> Should return void.
> >>
> >   yes, it is useless now, but maybe in future it may fail. Returning
> > int for every API results in only one more "eax store", I hope I can
> > keep all API returns indicate success/fail, while add comments to say
> > which API would not fail now.
> 
> The question is *how* can it fail?  It's a memset, do you envision it
> becoming something else?
> 
> It's not about the performance of the processor, it's about the
> performance of whoever has to read the documentation and will wonder
> what the return code is for.
> 
> (Though I proposed getting rid of this function too).

Yes, please.  Drop _init()/_uninit() and do this in _open()/_close().

I'm also not sure why qb_create() needs a QBlockState* argument.  Can it
be dropped?

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-02 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-01  9:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] libqblock draft code v1 Wenchao Xia
2012-08-01 10:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-02  7:57   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-08-02  8:59     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-02 10:23       ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2012-08-01 12:49 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-01 13:25   ` Eric Blake
2012-08-02 10:18     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-02 11:11     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2012-08-02 11:13       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-03  7:54         ` Wenchao Xia
2012-08-02  8:18   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-08-02 10:17     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-08-02 11:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-08-01 18:04 ` Blue Swirl
2012-08-02  8:32   ` Wenchao Xia
2012-08-02  9:00     ` Paolo Bonzini

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