similar to: [PATCH v4 08/42] virtio: allow transports to get avail/used addresses

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck at de.ibm.com> For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the

For virtio-1, we can theoretically have a more complex virtqueue layout with avail and used buffers not on a contiguous memory area with the descriptor table. For now, it's fine for a transport driver to stay with the old layout: It needs, however, a way to access the locations of the avail/used rings so it can register them with the host. Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi at

This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it adds two new improved APIs: vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically allocated coherent memory. (Some day it this could be extended to support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform on which it's worthwhile.) __vring_new_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue with a manually-specified

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:00:56AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it > adds two new improved APIs: > > vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically > allocated coherent memory. (Some day it this could be extended to > support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform > on

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:00:56AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it > adds two new improved APIs: > > vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically > allocated coherent memory. (Some day it this could be extended to > support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform > on