Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] grant-table, xen-netback: Introduce helper functions for grant copy operations

From: David Vrabel
Date: Thu Apr 03 2014 - 05:49:14 EST


On 03/04/14 09:12, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Zoltan Kiss wrote:
>>
>> Create helper functions for grant copy operations and use them in netback.
>>
[...]
>> --- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c
>> @@ -275,23 +275,29 @@ static void xenvif_gop_frag_copy(struct xenvif *vif,
>> struct sk_buff *skb,
>> bytes = MAX_BUFFER_OFFSET - npo->copy_off;
>>
>> copy_gop = npo->copy + npo->copy_prod++;
>> - copy_gop->flags = GNTCOPY_dest_gref;
>> - copy_gop->len = bytes;
>>
>> if (foreign_vif) {
>> - copy_gop->source.domid = foreign_vif->domid;
>> - copy_gop->source.u.ref = foreign_gref;
>> - copy_gop->flags |= GNTCOPY_source_gref;
>> + gnttab_set_copy_op_ref_to_ref(copy_gop,
>> + foreign_gref,
>> + npo->copy_gref,
>> + foreign_vif->domid,
>> + offset,
>> + vif->domid,
>> + npo->copy_off,
>> + bytes,
>> + GNTCOPY_dest_gref |
>> + GNTCOPY_source_gref);
>
> Can't you lose the flags here (and in the other variants)? Since
> they are implied by the variant of the function they could just be hardcoded
> there, couldn't they?

Even with that change these are still functions with 7 or 8 parameters
with no obvious order. That's just awful. The open-coded struct
initialization is better.

David
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