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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes(
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/3] Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes() |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:00:12 +0200 |
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:05:13AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> This is a rebased version of the patchset sent earlier.
>
> The current virtqueue_avail_bytes() is a weird API: it's oddly-named:
> doesn't tell us what the API is going to do, and also suits just one
> use-case (that in virtio-net.c).
>
> Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes(), which returns the number of
> bytes in the vq available for input as well as output.
> virtqueue_avail_bytes() is made a wrapper around this new function for
> now. It should be deprecated soon, though.
>
> Doing this will also help with the virtio-rng patch where a
> VirtQueueElement is popped only to find out what its size is. With
> this series applied, the popping (and the subsequent save/load of
> state for migration) isn't necessary.
>
> The virtio-serial-bus code becomes better too, that's patch 3 here.
>
> Please apply,
Applied, thanks.
> Amit Shah (3):
> virtio: use unsigned int for counting bytes in vq
> virtio: Introduce virtqueue_get_avail_bytes()
> virtio-serial-bus: let chardev know the exact number of bytes
> requested
>
> hw/virtio-serial-bus.c | 11 +++--------
> hw/virtio.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> hw/virtio.h | 5 ++++-
> 3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.7.7.6