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SubjectRe: [PATCH 07/18] virtio ring: inline function to check for events
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> With the new used_event and avail_event and features, both
> host and guest need similar logic to check whether events are
> enabled, so it helps to put the common code in the header.
>
> Note that Xen has similar logic for notification hold-off
> in include/xen/interface/io/ring.h with req_event and req_prod
> corresponding to event_idx + 1 and new_idx respectively.
> +1 comes from the fact that req_event and req_prod in Xen start at 1,
> while event index in virtio starts at 0.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/virtio_ring.h |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_ring.h b/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
> index f791772..2a3b0ea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_ring.h
> @@ -124,6 +124,20 @@ static inline unsigned vring_size(unsigned int num, unsigned long align)
>                + sizeof(__u16) * 3 + sizeof(struct vring_used_elem) * num;
>  }
>
> +/* The following is used with USED_EVENT_IDX and AVAIL_EVENT_IDX */
> +/* Assuming a given event_idx value from the other size, if

s/other size/other side/ ?

Stefan
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