[PATCH vhost v5 1/6] virtio_balloon: remove the dependence where names[] is null

Jason Wang jasowang at redhat.com
Mon Mar 25 21:14:17 PDT 2024


On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 5:04 PM Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo at linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, the init_vqs function within the virtio_balloon driver relies
> on the condition that certain names array entries are null in order to
> skip the initialization of some virtual queues (vqs).

If there's a respin I would add something like:

1) the virtqueue index is contiguous for all the existing devices.
2) the current behaviour of virtio-balloon device is different from
what is described in the spec 1.0-1.2
3) there's no functional changes and explain why

> This behavior is
> unique to this part of the codebase. In an upcoming commit, we plan to
> eliminate this dependency by removing the function entirely. Therefore,
> with this change, we are ensuring that the virtio_balloon no longer
> depends on the aforementioned function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo at linux.alibaba.com>

With the above tweak.

Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>

Thanks




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