[PATCH 1/6] virtio: wrap find_vqs

Michael S. Tsirkin
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:21:12 -0000

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:04:55PM +0800, Jason Wang
wrote:
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>
> On 2017?03?30? 22:32, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:00:08PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2017?03?30? 04:48, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > We are going to add more parameters to find_vqs, let's
wrap the call so
> > > > we don't need to tweak all drivers every time.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<mst at redhat.com>
> > > > ---
> > > A quick glance and it looks ok, but what the benefit of this
series, is it
> > > required by other changes?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > Yes - to avoid touching all devices when doing the rest of
> > the patchset.
>
> Maybe I'm not clear. I mean the benefit of this series not this single
> patch. I guess it may be used by you proposal that avoid reset when set
XDP?

In particular, yes. It generally simplifies things significantly if
we can get the true buffer size back.

> If yes, do we really want to drop some packets after XDP is set?
>
> Thanks

We would rather not drop packets. We could detect and copy them to make
XDP work.

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