netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/7] virtio_vdpa: init IRQ offloading function pointers to NULL.

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:43:05 +0800
From:   Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
To:     "Zhu, Lingshan" <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>, mst@...hat.com,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        sean.j.christopherson@...el.com, wanpengli@...cent.com
Cc:     virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dan.daly@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] virtio_vdpa: init IRQ offloading function pointers to
 NULL.


On 2020/7/13 下午6:20, Zhu, Lingshan wrote:
>
>
> On 7/13/2020 4:28 PM, Jason Wang wrote:
>>
>> On 2020/7/12 下午10:49, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
>>> This commit initialize IRQ offloading function pointers in
>>> virtio_vdpa_driver to NULL. Becasue irq offloading only focus
>>> on VMs for vhost_vdpa.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <lingshan.zhu@...el.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c | 2 ++
>>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c 
>>> b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
>>> index c30eb55..1e8acb9 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_vdpa.c
>>> @@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ static void virtio_vdpa_remove(struct 
>>> vdpa_device *vdpa)
>>>       },
>>>       .probe    = virtio_vdpa_probe,
>>>       .remove = virtio_vdpa_remove,
>>> +    .setup_vq_irq = NULL,
>>> +    .unsetup_vq_irq = NULL,
>>>   };
>>
>>
>> Is this really needed consider the it's static?
>>
>> Thanks
> This is for readability, to show they are NULL, so virtio_vdpa would not go through irq forwarding / offloading.
>
> Does this make sense?


Probably not, please refer what is done by other subsystems.

Thanks


>
> Thanks,
> BR
> Zhu Lingshan
>>
>>
>>> module_vdpa_driver(virtio_vdpa_driver);
>>