[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/5] xen: clean up VPF flags macros
On 09/25/2015 05:42 PM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 25.09.15 at 13:54, <JGross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:Per-VCPU pause flags in sched.h are defined as bit positions and as values derived from the bit defines. There is only one user of a value which can be easily converted to use a bit number as well.I'm not convinced:--- a/xen/common/domctl.c +++ b/xen/common/domctl.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ void getdomaininfo(struct domain *d, struct xen_domctl_getdomaininfo *info) info->max_vcpu_id = v->vcpu_id; if ( !test_bit(_VPF_down, &v->pause_flags) ) { - if ( !(v->pause_flags & VPF_blocked) ) + if ( !test_bit(_VPF_blocked, &v->pause_flags) )test_bit() is quite a bit more complex an operation than a simple &, and with (on x86) even constant_test_bit() involving a cast to a pointer to volatile I'm afraid we can't even hope that compilers would produce identical code for both in cases like this one (as that casts limits freedom of the compiler). IOW I'd rather see other test_bit(_VPF_...) uses converted the inverse way (which as a nice but minor side effect would yield slightly smaller source code). What about introducing __test_bit() being a variant which can be reordered by omitting the volatile modifier? I think this would have the same effect. And we could still get rid of many double definitions of the same bit. Even if the mask definition of a bit is not error prone by relying on the definition of the bit position, it makes it harder to find all users of this bit. Juergen _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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