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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] xen/granttable: Introducing grant table V2 s

> >The more normal way to do this would be to make gnttab_interface a
> >pointer, define gnttab_v1_ops and do:
> >     gnttab_interface = &gnttab_v1_ops;
> >or if the pointer overhead is significant remove that and just do a
> >struct assignment:
> >     gnttab_interface = gnttab_v1_ops;
> >
> If using this way, we need two more public structures(gnttab_v1_ops
> and gnttab_v2_ops), and two more functions to initialize those two
> structures and then initialize the pointer gnttab_interface. It is
> more complicated, am i missing something?

Why two functions? I agree on the structures - but they need not to be
public (they can be static).

For a good example look at how apic_physflat is done.

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