Re: [PATCH 5 of 5] virtio: expose added descriptors immediately

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Nov 22 2011 - 21:00:34 EST


On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:29:08 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:03:04AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > - /* If you haven't kicked in this long, you're probably doing something
> > - * wrong. */
> > - WARN_ON(vq->num_added > vq->vring.num);
> > + /* This is very unlikely, but theoretically possible. Kick
> > + * just in case. */
> > + if (unlikely(vq->num_added == 65535))
>
> This is 0xffff but why use the decimal notation?

Interesting. Why use hex? Feels more like binary?

But I've changed it to "(1 << 16) - 1" to be clear.

> > + virtqueue_kick(_vq);
> >
> > pr_debug("Added buffer head %i to %p\n", head, vq);
> > END_USE(vq);
>
> We also still need to reset vq->num_added, right?

virtqueue_kick does that for us.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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