linux-kernel - Re: [v3 02/26] iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap

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Date:	Wed, 28 Jan 2015 15:22:37 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Feng Wu <feng.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, gleb@...nel.org, pbonzini@...hat.com,
	joro@...tes.org, alex.williamson@...hat.com,
	jiang.liu@...ux.intel.com, eric.auger@...aro.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v3 02/26] iommu: Add new member capability to struct
 irq_remap_ops

On Fri, 2014-12-12 at 23:14 +0800, Feng Wu wrote:
> This patch adds a new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops,
> this new function ops can be used to check whether some
> features are supported, such as VT-d Posted-Interrupts.

> +	/* Check some capability is supported */
> +	bool (*capability)(enum irq_remap_cap);
> +

Does this need to be a function call? Or could we just have a set of
flags in the irq_remap_ops instead, with less overhead to check them?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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