Re: [RFC v4 4/5] virtio_ring: add event idx support in packed ring

[Jason Wang]

On 2018å05æ16æ 20:58, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:17:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > On 2018å05æ16æ 16:37, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> [...]
> > > @@ -1160,15 +1186,27 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
> > >    static unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
> > >    {
> > >    	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
> > > +	u16 wrap_counter;
> > >    	START_USE(vq);
> > >    	/* We optimistically turn back on interrupts, then check if there was
> > >    	 * more to do. */
> > > +	/* Depending on the VIRTIO_RING_F_USED_EVENT_IDX feature, we need to
> > > +	 * either clear the flags bit or point the event index at the next
> > > +	 * entry. Always update the event index to keep code simple. */
> > > +
> > > +	wrap_counter = vq->wrap_counter;
> > > +	if (vq->last_used_idx > vq->next_avail_idx)
> > Should this be ">=" consider rx refill may try to completely fill the ring?
> It seems that there are two cases that last_used_idx
> equals to next_avail_idx. The first one is that the
> ring is empty. And the second one is that the ring
> is full. Although in the first case, most probably,
> the driver won't enable the interrupt.
>
> Maybe I really should track the used_wrap_counter
> instead of calculating it each time I need it.. I'll
> give it a try..

Right, good to know and this will match spec sample code.

Thanks