From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
Cc: jasowang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/7] vhost: Add new UAPI to support changing Kthread mode
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:06:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZsV17ACIEelIQuKx@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240819092851.441670-8-lulu@redhat.com>
On Mon, Aug 19, 2024 at 05:27:33PM +0800, Cindy Lu wrote:
> Add a new UAPI to support setting the vhost device to
> use kthread mode. The user space application needs to use
> VHOST_SET_USE_KTHREAD to set the mode. This setting must
> be set before VHOST_SET_OWNER is set.
Usage of an API is a complete kernel internal detail that has absolutely
no business being exposed to applications.
What is the application visible behavior that the API use is the proxy
for?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-21 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-19 9:27 [RFC 0/7] vhost: Add support of kthread API Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 1/7] vhost: Add a new module_param for enable kthread Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 2/7] vhost: Add kthread support in function vhost_worker_queue() Cindy Lu
2024-08-27 2:36 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-28 9:32 ` Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 3/7] vhost: Add kthread support in function vhost_workers_free() Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 4/7] vhost: Add the vhost_worker to support kthread Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 5/7] vhost: Add the cgroup related function Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 6/7] vhost: Add kthread support in function vhost_worker_create Cindy Lu
2024-08-19 9:27 ` [RFC 7/7] vhost: Add new UAPI to support changing Kthread mode Cindy Lu
2024-08-21 5:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-08-25 13:51 ` Cindy Lu
2024-08-26 6:21 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-26 6:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-08-27 2:09 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-27 2:30 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-27 2:32 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-28 9:46 ` Cindy Lu
2024-08-27 2:36 ` Jason Wang
2024-08-27 2:35 ` [RFC 0/7] vhost: Add support of kthread API Jason Wang
2024-08-28 9:47 ` Cindy Lu
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