Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 1/5] vhost: split out ring head fetching logic

From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Date: Fri Sep 22 2017 - 04:32:15 EST


On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:02:31PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> +/* This looks in the virtqueue and for the first available buffer, and converts
> + * it to an iovec for convenient access. Since descriptors consist of some
> + * number of output then some number of input descriptors, it's actually two
> + * iovecs, but we pack them into one and note how many of each there were.
> + *
> + * This function returns the descriptor number found, or vq->num (which is
> + * never a valid descriptor number) if none was found. A negative code is
> + * returned on error. */
> +int __vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size,
> + unsigned int *out_num, unsigned int *in_num,
> + struct vhost_log *log, unsigned int *log_num,
> + __virtio16 head)
[...]
> +int vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size,
> + unsigned int *out_num, unsigned int *in_num,
> + struct vhost_log *log, unsigned int *log_num)

Please document vhost_get_vq_desc().

Please also explain the difference between __vhost_get_vq_desc() and
vhost_get_vq_desc() in the documentation.