Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 1/5] vhost: split out ring head fetching logic
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-22 08:32:11
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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-22 08:32:11
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:02:31PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
+/* This looks in the virtqueue and for the first available buffer, and converts + * it to an iovec for convenient access. Since descriptors consist of some + * number of output then some number of input descriptors, it's actually two + * iovecs, but we pack them into one and note how many of each there were. + * + * This function returns the descriptor number found, or vq->num (which is + * never a valid descriptor number) if none was found. A negative code is + * returned on error. */ +int __vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, + struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size, + unsigned int *out_num, unsigned int *in_num, + struct vhost_log *log, unsigned int *log_num, + __virtio16 head)
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+int vhost_get_vq_desc(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq, + struct iovec iov[], unsigned int iov_size, + unsigned int *out_num, unsigned int *in_num, + struct vhost_log *log, unsigned int *log_num)
Please document vhost_get_vq_desc(). Please also explain the difference between __vhost_get_vq_desc() and vhost_get_vq_desc() in the documentation.