linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: add __kvm_request_needs

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Message-ID: <20170223155235.GD8342@potion>
Date:   Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:52:35 +0100
From:   Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: add __kvm_request_needs_mb

2017-02-23 12:01+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> On 16/02/2017 17:04, Radim Krčmář wrote:
>> A macro to optimize requests that do not need a memory barrier because
>> they have no dependencies.  An architecture can implement a function
>> that says which requests do not need memory barriers when handling them.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
> 
> I would leave this for a separate series, otherwise looks nice (though I
> was skeptical at first ;)).

Ok, I'll first post just the renaming and base other ideas from related
thread on it.