Re: [PATCH v2 REPOST 08/12] x86/hvm/ioreq: move is_default into struct hvm_ioreq_server

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Pau Monne
> Sent: 24 August 2017 17:22
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Andrew Cooper
> <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 REPOST 08/12] x86/hvm/ioreq: move
> is_default into struct hvm_ioreq_server
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 03:51:02PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > Legacy emulators use the 'default' IOREQ server which has slightly
> > different semantics than other, explicitly created, IOREQ servers.
> >
> > Because of this, most of the initialization and teardown code needs to
> > know whether the server is default or not. This is currently achieved
> > by passing an is_default boolean argument to the functions in question,
> > whereas this argument could be avoided by adding a field to the
> > hvm_ioreq_server structure which is also passed as an argument to all
> > the relevant functions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
> 
> This looks fine, I've also seen that there's a
> hvm_domain.default_ioreq_server, which is used in a bunch of loops in the
> file like:
> 
> if ( s == d->arch.hvm_domain.default_ioreq_server )
> 
> AFAICT those could also be replaced with s->is_default.

Yes, they should be. Thanks for spotting that.

Cheers,

  Paul

> 
> Roger.

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