Re: [PATCH 14/18] virtio: add api for delayed callbacks

On Sun, 15 May 2011 15:48:18 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:27:33PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:

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On Wed, 4 May 2011 23:52:33 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks
should be delayed until a lot of work has been done.
Implement using the new used_event feature.

Since you're going to add a capacity query anyway, why not add the
threshold argument here?

I thought that if we keep the API kind of generic
there might be more of a chance that future transports
will be able to implement it. For example, with an
old host we can't commit to a specific index.

No, it's always a hint anyway: you can be notified before the threshold
is reached.  But best make it explicit I think.

Cheers,
Rusty.