[PATCH V7 14/19] virtio_ring: determine descriptor flags at one time
From: Jason Wang
Date: Thu Sep 25 2025 - 06:44:20 EST
Let's determine the last descriptor by counting the number of sg. This
would be consistent with packed virtqueue implementation and ease the
future in-order implementation.
Acked-by: Eugenio Pérez <eperezma@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 19 ++++++-------------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index e61867268c75..fc04cdb99706 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
struct vring_desc_extra *extra;
struct scatterlist *sg;
struct vring_desc *desc;
- unsigned int i, n, avail, descs_used, prev, err_idx;
+ unsigned int i, n, avail, descs_used, err_idx, c = 0;
int head;
bool indirect;
@@ -638,12 +638,11 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
if (vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_TO_DEVICE, &addr, &len, premapped))
goto unmap_release;
- prev = i;
/* Note that we trust indirect descriptor
* table since it use stream DMA mapping.
*/
i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra, i, addr, len,
- VRING_DESC_F_NEXT,
+ ++c == total_sg ? 0 : VRING_DESC_F_NEXT,
premapped);
}
}
@@ -655,21 +654,15 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct vring_virtqueue *vq,
if (vring_map_one_sg(vq, sg, DMA_FROM_DEVICE, &addr, &len, premapped))
goto unmap_release;
- prev = i;
/* Note that we trust indirect descriptor
* table since it use stream DMA mapping.
*/
- i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra, i, addr, len,
- VRING_DESC_F_NEXT |
- VRING_DESC_F_WRITE,
- premapped);
+ i = virtqueue_add_desc_split(vq, desc, extra,
+ i, addr, len,
+ (++c == total_sg ? 0 : VRING_DESC_F_NEXT) |
+ VRING_DESC_F_WRITE, premapped);
}
}
- /* Last one doesn't continue. */
- desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(vq->vq.vdev, ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT);
- if (!indirect && vring_need_unmap_buffer(vq, &extra[prev]))
- vq->split.desc_extra[prev & (vq->split.vring.num - 1)].flags &=
- ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT;
if (indirect) {
/* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */
--
2.31.1