Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] virtio: move VirtQueueElement at the beginning of the structs

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:22:37 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> The next patch will make virtqueue_pop/vring_pop allocate memory for the
> VirtQueueElement.  In some cases (blk, scsi, gpu) the device wants to
> extend VirtQueueElement with device-specific fields and, until now, the
> place of the VirtQueueElement within the containing struct didn't
> matter.  When allocating the entire block in virtqueue_pop/vring_pop,
> however, the containing struct must basically be a "subclass" of
> VirtQueueElement, with the VirtQueueElement as the first field.  Make
> that the case for blk and scsi; gpu is already doing it.

Sounds good!