netdev - RE: [PATCH v1 2/3] Provides multiple submits and asynchronous notifications.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:46:50 +0800
From:	"Xin, Xiaohui" <xiaohui.xin@...el.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mingo@...e.hu" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"jdike@...user-mode-linux.org" <jdike@...user-mode-linux.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v1 2/3] Provides multiple submits and asynchronous
	notifications.

>> +/* The structure to notify the virtqueue for async socket */
>> +struct vhost_notifier {
>> +	struct list_head list;
> >+	struct vhost_virtqueue *vq;
> >+	int head;
> >+	int size;
> >+	int log;
> >+	void *ctrl;
> >+	void (*dtor)(struct vhost_notifier *);
> >+};
> >+

>So IMO, this is not the best interface between vhost
>and your driver, exposing them to each other unnecessarily.
>
>If you think about it, your driver should not care about this structure.
>It could get e.g. a kiocb (sendmsg already gets one), and call ki_dtor
>on completion.  vhost could save it's state in ki_user_data.  If your
>driver needs to add more data to do more tracking, I think it can put
>skb pointer in the private pointer.

Then if I remove the struct vhost_notifier, and just use struct kiocb, but don't use the one got from sendmsg or recvmsg, but allocated within the page_info structure, and don't implement any aio logic related to it, is that ok?

Sorry, I made a patch, but don't know how to reply mail with a good formatted patch here....

Thanks
Xiaohui
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