netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci

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Message-ID: <OF32429FD6.3F8CAEC5-ON6525779D.00169473-6525779D.0017A613@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:50:42 +0530
From:	Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	anthony@...emonkey.ws, davem@...emloft.net, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] Add a new API to virtio-pci

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote on 09/12/2010 05:16:37 PM:

> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
> 09/12/2010 05:16 PM
>
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 07:19:33PM +0530, Krishna Kumar2 wrote:
> > Unfortunately I need a
> > constant in vhost for now.
>
> Maybe not even that: you create multiple vhost-net
> devices so vhost-net in kernel does not care about these
> either, right? So this can be just part of vhost_net.h
> in qemu.

Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant.

I can remove all socks[] arrays/constants by pre-allocating
sockets in vhost_setup_vqs. Then I can remove all "socks"
parameters in vhost_net_stop, vhost_net_release and
vhost_net_reset_owner.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,

- KK

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