[PATCH 1/7] KVM: api: add kvm_irq_routing_extended_msi

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Mon Jul 6 08:54:55 PDT 2015



On 06/07/2015 17:37, Andre Przywara wrote:
> Wouldn't:
>     if (kvm_vm_check_extension(s, KVM_CAP_MSI_DEVID)) {
>         kroute.flags = KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID;
>         kroute.u.msi.devid = (pci_bus_num(dev->bus) << 8) | dev->devfn;
>     }
> 
> be saner (without a global variable)?
> That would make the interface more consistent, with a new flag being
> protected by a new capability.

I agree that your version is niceer, but you still need to cache the
kvm_vm_check_extension result... in a global variable. :)

Paolo



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