netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 10/13] xen-netfront: refactor claim/release grant

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 10:19:24 +0000
From:	Joao Martins <Joao.Martins@...lab.eu>
To:	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"wei.liu2@...rix.com" <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	"ian.campbell@...rix.com" <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	"boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 10/13] xen-netfront: refactor
 claim/release grant


On 18 May 2015, at 17:48, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com> wrote:
> On 12/05/15 18:18, Joao Martins wrote:
>> Refactors how grants are claimed/released/revoked by moving that code
>> into claim_grant and release_grant helpers routines that can be shared
>> in both TX/RX path.
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> 
> But should this be generic?  Is it useful to other frontends?  And some
> of the line splitting looks a bit odd.

It looks like scsifront (lines 384-389, 418-423), blkfront (lines 250-257)
and netfront both grant their buffers in the same way, so perhaps these two
helpers could be reused.

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