netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/7] irqbypass: Take ownership of producer/consumer token tracking

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Message-ID: <20250410162516.6ebfa8ee.alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:25:16 -0600
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@...ux.dev>, David
 Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>, Like Xu <like.xu.linux@...il.com>, Yong He
 <alexyonghe@...cent.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] irqbypass: Take ownership of producer/consumer
 token tracking

On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:04:35 -0700
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2025, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > The "token" terminology seems a little out of place after all is said
> > and done in this series.    
> 
> Ugh, yeah, good point.  I don't know why I left it as "token".
> 
> > Should it just be an "index" in anticipation of the usage with xarray and
> > changed to an unsigned long?  Or at least s/token/eventfd/ and changed to an
> > eventfd_ctx pointer?  
> 
> My strong vote is for "struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd;"

WFM, thanks,

Alex