Re: [PATCH 3/6] virtio: allow extra context per descriptor

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 03:23:33 EST


On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:48:53 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Allow extra context per descriptor. To avoid slow down for data path,
> this disables use of indirect descriptors for this vq.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> include/linux/virtio.h | 9 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>

> /**
> + * virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx - expose input buffers to other end
> + * @vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
> + * @sg: scatterlist (must be well-formed and terminated!)
> + * @num: the number of entries in @sg writable by other side
> + * @data: the token identifying the buffer.
> + * @ctx: extra context for the token

I think that needs do that ctx != NULL collides with indirect
descriptors.

> + * @gfp: how to do memory allocations (if necessary).
> + *
> + * Caller must ensure we don't call this with other virtqueue operations
> + * at the same time (except where noted).
> + *
> + * Returns zero or a negative error (ie. ENOSPC, ENOMEM, EIO).
> + */
> +int virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx(struct virtqueue *vq,
> + struct scatterlist *sg, unsigned int num,
> + void *data,
> + void *ctx,
> + gfp_t gfp)
> +{
> + return virtqueue_add(vq, &sg, num, 0, 1, data, ctx, gfp);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_add_inbuf_ctx);