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Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers

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On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 03:38:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> We should use vq->last_avail_idx instead of vq->avail_idx in the
> checking of vhost_vq_avail_empty() since latter is the cached avail
> index from guest but we want to know if there's pending available
> buffers in the virtqueue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>

I'm not sure why is this patch here. Is it related to
batching somehow?


> ---
>  drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index c6f2d89..fdf4cdf 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2230,7 +2230,7 @@ bool vhost_vq_avail_empty(struct vhost_dev *dev, struct vhost_virtqueue *vq)
>  	if (r)
>  		return false;
>  
> -	return vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx) == vq->avail_idx;
> +	return vhost16_to_cpu(vq, avail_idx) == vq->last_avail_idx;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_vq_avail_empty);

That might be OK for TX but it's probably wrong for RX
where the fact that used != avail does not mean
we have enough space to store the packet.

Maybe we should just rename this to vhost_vq_avail_unchanged
to clarify usage.


>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4

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[PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 08:40 +0100
  [PATCH 3/3] vhost_net: tx support batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 08:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost_net: tx support batching "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] vhost_net: tx support batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 03:30 +0100
  [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 08:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 21:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 03:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 04:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 05:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 2/3] vhost: better detection of available buffers "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 17:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-09 17:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 03:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 04:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 05:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 05:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 05:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 17:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/3] tuntap: rx batching Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> - 2016-11-11 05:20 +0100

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