Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 4 authors, 2017-09-28

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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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)
[...]
+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.
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