netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 02/14] virtio ring: inline function to check for events

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Message-ID: <87y620u6p7.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Sat, 21 May 2011 11:59:40 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Carsten Otte <cotte@...ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Shirley Ma <xma@...ibm.com>, lguest@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <tahm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, steved@...ibm.com,
	habanero@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 02/14] virtio ring: inline function to check for events

On Fri, 20 May 2011 02:10:27 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.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@...hat.com>

Applied.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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