Thread (22 messages) 22 messages, 3 authors, 2021-04-12

Re: [PATCH v4 06/14] vringh: add vringh_kiov_length() helper

From: Laurent Vivier <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-15 16:52:50
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On 15/03/2021 17:34, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
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This new helper returns the total number of bytes covered by
a vringh_kiov.

Suggested-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/vringh.h | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/vringh.h b/include/linux/vringh.h
index 755211ebd195..84db7b8f912f 100644
--- a/include/linux/vringh.h
+++ b/include/linux/vringh.h
@@ -199,6 +199,17 @@ static inline void vringh_kiov_cleanup(struct vringh_kiov *kiov)
 	kiov->iov = NULL;
 }
 
+static inline size_t vringh_kiov_length(struct vringh_kiov *kiov)
+{
+	size_t len = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = kiov->i; i < kiov->used; i++)
+		len += kiov->iov[i].iov_len;
+
+	return len;
+}
Do we really need an helper?

For instance, we can use:

len = iov_length((struct iovec *)kiov->iov, kiov->used);

Or do we want to avoid the cast?

Thanks,
Laurent

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