linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vhost: cleanup iterator update logic

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:58:45 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vhost: cleanup iterator update logic

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:31:31 +0100

> Recent iterator-related changes in vhost made it
> harder to follow the logic fixing up the header.
> In fact, the fixup always happens at the same
> offset: sizeof(virtio_net_hdr): sometimes the
> fixup iterator is updated by copy_to_iter,
> sometimes-by iov_iter_advance.
> 
> Rearrange code to make this obvious.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>

Applied.
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