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SubjectRe: [RFC v4 4/5] virtio_ring: add event idx support in packed ring
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On 2018年05月16日 20:58, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 08:17:21PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2018年05月16日 16:37, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> [...]
>>> @@ -1160,15 +1186,27 @@ static void virtqueue_disable_cb_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
>>> static unsigned virtqueue_enable_cb_prepare_packed(struct virtqueue *_vq)
>>> {
>>> struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
>>> + u16 wrap_counter;
>>> START_USE(vq);
>>> /* We optimistically turn back on interrupts, then check if there was
>>> * more to do. */
>>> + /* Depending on the VIRTIO_RING_F_USED_EVENT_IDX feature, we need to
>>> + * either clear the flags bit or point the event index at the next
>>> + * entry. Always update the event index to keep code simple. */
>>> +
>>> + wrap_counter = vq->wrap_counter;
>>> + if (vq->last_used_idx > vq->next_avail_idx)
>> Should this be ">=" consider rx refill may try to completely fill the ring?
> It seems that there are two cases that last_used_idx
> equals to next_avail_idx. The first one is that the
> ring is empty. And the second one is that the ring
> is full. Although in the first case, most probably,
> the driver won't enable the interrupt.
>
> Maybe I really should track the used_wrap_counter
> instead of calculating it each time I need it.. I'll
> give it a try..
>

Right, good to know and this will match spec sample code.

Thanks

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