Re: [PATCH 2/6] virtio: add context flag to find vqs

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Thu Mar 30 2017 - 10:58:18 EST


On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:17:31AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:48:51 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Allows maintaining extra context per vq. For ease of use, passing in
> > NULL is legal and disables the feature for all vqs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_main.c | 9 ++++++---
> > drivers/s390/virtio/kvm_virtio.c | 6 ++++--
> > drivers/s390/virtio/virtio_ccw.c | 7 ++++---
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_mmio.c | 8 +++++---
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.h | 4 +++-
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_legacy.c | 4 +++-
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_modern.c | 12 ++++++++----
> > drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c | 7 +++++--
> > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
> > include/linux/virtio_ring.h | 3 +++
> > 11 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
>
> This series really needs a cover letter, explaining the motivation for
> adding this context.

True. Will try to improve that for v2.

> From what I understand, you want to track some length parameter in
> virtio-net. As you don't use indirect descriptors in that case, you
> want to use a context instead. Did I get this correctly?

Exactly.

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