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From: Andrii Anisov <andrii.anisov@gmail.com>
To: Julien Grall <julien.grall@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Andrii Anisov <andrii_anisov@epam.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gic:vgic: avoid excessive conversions
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:48:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046e6f5-1608-0d94-8bfd-668fe21cf5e3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF3u54Agc7Yw5KRfaiLdP7pb06_Pj-RcajD+VUFsQJCwMyb7TA@mail.gmail.com>


On 19.11.18 15:54, Julien Grall wrote:
> You didn't get my point. You removed a parameter without explaining 
> why it is fine.

It is a pure optimization. If you look through the code, you can see 
that callers of these functions already have a correspondent `struct 
pending_irq` pointer. But they pass irq number (and priority) to 
gic_raise_guest_irq/gic_raise_inflight_irq so that they should calculate 
the pointer again, what is suboptimal.


> In that context, the caller for LPI is using lpi_priority.
What in its turn is not taken into consideration by the current 
`gic_raise_guest_irq` function implementation. Even clearly ignored, 
because the priority abstraction is only needed by 
`gic_add_to_lr_pending` to insert a pending irq into `lr_queue`, but it 
does ordering by `p->priority` only.

> With your change, it is becoming issue with the interface because it 
> may not pass the correct things.

Now the interface of `gic_raise_guest_irq` function corresponds to its 
implementation in addition to optimization.


> So this not a cleanup and there must be a reason why lpi_priority was 
> passed instead of priority.

Moreover, if one would like or plan to honor lpi_priority in 
`gic_raise_guest_irq`, he can freely extract it from a pending_irq 
structure. It is still there.


-- 

Sincerely,
Andrii Anisov.


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  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-19 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-16 16:45 [PATCH] gic:vgic: avoid excessive conversions Andrii Anisov
2018-11-16 17:27 ` Julien Grall
2018-11-19 12:02   ` Andrii Anisov
2018-11-19 13:54     ` Julien Grall
2018-11-19 15:48       ` Andrii Anisov [this message]
2018-11-20 11:09 ` Andrii Anisov
2018-12-19 10:49   ` Andrii Anisov

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