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    "date": "2023-09-26T18:57:22",
    "name": "[v4,02/18] vhost: Remove vhost_backend_can_merge() callback",
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        "name": "David Hildenbrand",
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            "date": "2023-09-26T18:57:23",
            "name": "virtio-mem: Expose device memory through multiple memslots",
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        "Cc": "David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,\n Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,\n Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>,\n \"Michael S. Tsirkin\" <mst@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,\n\t=?utf-8?q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <philmd@linaro.org>,\n Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>,\n Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,\n Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>,\n\t=?utf-8?q?Daniel_P_=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= <berrange@redhat.com>,\n Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,\n Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,\n \"Maciej S . Szmigiero\" <mail@maciej.szmigiero.name>, kvm@vger.kernel.org",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v4 02/18] vhost: Remove vhost_backend_can_merge() callback",
        "Date": "Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:57:22 +0200",
        "Message-ID": "<20230926185738.277351-3-david@redhat.com>",
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    "content": "Checking whether the memory regions are equal is sufficient: if they are\nequal, then most certainly the contained fd is equal.\n\nThe whole vhost-user memslot handling is suboptimal and overly\ncomplicated. We shouldn't have to lookup a RAM memory regions we got\nnotified about in vhost_user_get_mr_data() using a host pointer. But that\nrequires a bigger rework -- especially an alternative vhost_set_mem_table()\nbackend call that simply consumes MemoryRegionSections.\n\nFor now, let's just drop vhost_backend_can_merge().\n\nAcked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>\nReviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>\nAcked-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>\nReviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>\nSigned-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>\n---\n hw/virtio/vhost-user.c            | 14 --------------\n hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c            |  1 -\n hw/virtio/vhost.c                 |  6 +-----\n include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h |  4 ----\n 4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 24 deletions(-)",
    "diff": "diff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c\nindex 1e7553352a..e6de930872 100644\n--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c\n+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-user.c\n@@ -2205,19 +2205,6 @@ static int vhost_user_migration_done(struct vhost_dev *dev, char* mac_addr)\n     return -ENOTSUP;\n }\n \n-static bool vhost_user_can_merge(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n-                                 uint64_t start1, uint64_t size1,\n-                                 uint64_t start2, uint64_t size2)\n-{\n-    ram_addr_t offset;\n-    int mfd, rfd;\n-\n-    (void)vhost_user_get_mr_data(start1, &offset, &mfd);\n-    (void)vhost_user_get_mr_data(start2, &offset, &rfd);\n-\n-    return mfd == rfd;\n-}\n-\n static int vhost_user_net_set_mtu(struct vhost_dev *dev, uint16_t mtu)\n {\n     VhostUserMsg msg;\n@@ -2764,7 +2751,6 @@ const VhostOps user_ops = {\n         .vhost_set_vring_enable = vhost_user_set_vring_enable,\n         .vhost_requires_shm_log = vhost_user_requires_shm_log,\n         .vhost_migration_done = vhost_user_migration_done,\n-        .vhost_backend_can_merge = vhost_user_can_merge,\n         .vhost_net_set_mtu = vhost_user_net_set_mtu,\n         .vhost_set_iotlb_callback = vhost_user_set_iotlb_callback,\n         .vhost_send_device_iotlb_msg = vhost_user_send_device_iotlb_msg,\ndiff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c b/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c\nindex 42f2a4bae9..8f07bee041 100644\n--- a/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c\n+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost-vdpa.c\n@@ -1508,7 +1508,6 @@ const VhostOps vdpa_ops = {\n         .vhost_set_config = vhost_vdpa_set_config,\n         .vhost_requires_shm_log = NULL,\n         .vhost_migration_done = NULL,\n-        .vhost_backend_can_merge = NULL,\n         .vhost_net_set_mtu = NULL,\n         .vhost_set_iotlb_callback = NULL,\n         .vhost_send_device_iotlb_msg = NULL,\ndiff --git a/hw/virtio/vhost.c b/hw/virtio/vhost.c\nindex c1e6148833..c16ad14535 100644\n--- a/hw/virtio/vhost.c\n+++ b/hw/virtio/vhost.c\n@@ -728,11 +728,7 @@ static void vhost_region_add_section(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n             size_t offset = mrs_gpa - prev_gpa_start;\n \n             if (prev_host_start + offset == mrs_host &&\n-                section->mr == prev_sec->mr &&\n-                (!dev->vhost_ops->vhost_backend_can_merge ||\n-                 dev->vhost_ops->vhost_backend_can_merge(dev,\n-                    mrs_host, mrs_size,\n-                    prev_host_start, prev_size))) {\n+                section->mr == prev_sec->mr) {\n                 uint64_t max_end = MAX(prev_host_end, mrs_host + mrs_size);\n                 need_add = false;\n                 prev_sec->offset_within_address_space =\ndiff --git a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h\nindex df2821ddae..12d578824b 100644\n--- a/include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h\n+++ b/include/hw/virtio/vhost-backend.h\n@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ typedef int (*vhost_set_vring_enable_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n typedef bool (*vhost_requires_shm_log_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev);\n typedef int (*vhost_migration_done_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n                                        char *mac_addr);\n-typedef bool (*vhost_backend_can_merge_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n-                                           uint64_t start1, uint64_t size1,\n-                                           uint64_t start2, uint64_t size2);\n typedef int (*vhost_vsock_set_guest_cid_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev,\n                                             uint64_t guest_cid);\n typedef int (*vhost_vsock_set_running_op)(struct vhost_dev *dev, int start);\n@@ -163,7 +160,6 @@ typedef struct VhostOps {\n     vhost_set_vring_enable_op vhost_set_vring_enable;\n     vhost_requires_shm_log_op vhost_requires_shm_log;\n     vhost_migration_done_op vhost_migration_done;\n-    vhost_backend_can_merge_op vhost_backend_can_merge;\n     vhost_vsock_set_guest_cid_op vhost_vsock_set_guest_cid;\n     vhost_vsock_set_running_op vhost_vsock_set_running;\n     vhost_set_iotlb_callback_op vhost_set_iotlb_callback;\n",
    "prefixes": [
        "v4",
        "02/18"
    ]
}