Re: [PATCH 18/25] Staging: hv: Get rid of struct hv_bus

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:23:25PM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:41 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org;

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:19:45AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: This patch-set addresses some of the bus/driver model cleanup that Greg sugested over the last couple of days. In this patch-set we deal with the following issues: 1) Cleanup unnecessary state in struct hv_device and

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:29 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus

RE: [PATCH 11/25] Staging: hv: Get rid of the drv field in struct hv_device

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:57 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang; Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT

RE: [PATCH 12/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup error handling in vmbus_child_device_register()

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:51 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang; Abhishek Kane (Mindtree Consulting PVT

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2011-04-27 Thread Ming Zhao
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Re: [RFC PATCH TRIVIAL] Reading the virtio code...

2011-04-27 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:59:27PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:13:34 -0500, Rob Landley rland...@parallels.com wrote: From: Rob Landley rland...@parallels.com Going indirect for only two buffers isn't likely to be a performance win because the kmalloc/kfree

Re: [PATCH] driver, virtio: Modify the err hanlding logic

2011-04-27 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:21:59 +0800, Liu Yuan namei.u...@gmail.com wrote: From: Liu Yuan tailai...@taobao.com In the function vp_request_msix_vectors(), when pci_enable_msix() returns 0, there will be redundant double checks for 'err'. This patch fixes it to avoid the unnecessary check.

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:54:02AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: I would prefer that we go through the review process. What is the process for this review? Is there a time window for people to respond. I am hoping I will be able to address all the review comments well in advance of the next

Re: [RFC PATCH TRIVIAL] Reading the virtio code...

2011-04-27 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:13:34 -0500, Rob Landley rland...@parallels.com wrote: From: Rob Landley rland...@parallels.com Going indirect for only two buffers isn't likely to be a performance win because the kmalloc/kfree overhead for the indirect block can't be cheaper than one extra linked

RE: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread KY Srinivasan
-Original Message- From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:h...@infradead.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:46 AM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: Greg KH; gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualizat...@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25]

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:47:03AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: On the host side, Windows emulates the standard PC hardware to permit hosting of fully virtualized operating systems. To enhance disk I/O performance, we support a virtual block driver. This block driver currently handles disks

Re: [PATCH 08/25] Staging: hv: vmbus_driver cannot be unloaded; cleanup accordingly

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 02:31:18AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:g...@kroah.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:46 PM To: KY Srinivasan Cc: gre...@suse.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; de...@linuxdriverproject.org;

Re: [PATCH 00/25] Staging: hv: Cleanup vmbus driver code

2011-04-27 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:54:02AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: After that, do you want another round of review of the code, or do you have more things you want to send in (like the name[64] removal?) I would prefer that we go through the review process. What is the process for this