From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 11/12] vringh: allow vringh_iov_xfer() to skip bytes when ptr is NULL
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:48:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201116114854.5vrcjzsvhklpfeud@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5cfe66f-5ae2-1a73-6010-74123721135b@redhat.com>
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:32:02PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>
>On 2020/11/13 下午9:47, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
>>In some cases, it may be useful to provide a way to skip a number
>>of bytes in a vringh_iov.
>>
>>In order to keep vringh_iov consistent, let's reuse vringh_iov_xfer()
>>logic and skip bytes when the ptr is NULL.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
>>---
>>
>>I'm not sure if this is the best option, maybe we can add a new
>>function vringh_iov_skip().
>>
>>Suggestions?
>
>
>I might be worth to check whether we can convert vringh_iov to use iov
>iterator then we can use iov_iterator_advance() here.
Make sense, I'll take a look.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Stefano
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-16 12:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-13 13:47 [PATCH RFC 00/12] vdpa: generalize vdpa simulator and add block device Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] vhost-vdpa: add support for vDPA blk devices Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-17 10:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 15:05 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] vdpa: split vdpasim to core and net modules Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:00 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 9:39 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-18 13:14 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-19 6:16 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] vdpa_sim: remove hard-coded virtq count Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:02 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] vdpa: add vdpa simulator for block device Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:10 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 10:17 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-17 11:11 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 14:16 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-17 16:43 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 17:38 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-18 11:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-18 11:39 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] vdpa_sim: remove the limit of IOTLB entries Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:12 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 10:22 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] vdpa_sim: add struct vdpasim_device to store device properties Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:14 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 10:30 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-17 11:23 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 14:24 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] vdpa_sim: move config management outside of the core Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:18 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 10:42 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] vdpa_sim: use kvmalloc to allocate vdpasim->buffer Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:19 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] vdpa_sim: make vdpasim->buffer size configurable Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:19 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] vdpa_sim: split vdpasim_virtqueue's iov field in riov and wiov Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:21 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-17 11:27 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-20 14:41 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] vringh: allow vringh_iov_xfer() to skip bytes when ptr is NULL Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 4:32 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 11:48 ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2020-11-13 13:47 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] vdpa_sim_blk: implement ramdisk behaviour Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 5:25 ` Jason Wang
2020-11-16 11:08 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 9:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-11-16 11:23 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-17 11:36 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-11-17 14:32 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-11-16 3:37 ` [PATCH RFC 00/12] vdpa: generalize vdpa simulator and add block device Jason Wang
2020-11-16 8:53 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-18 11:38 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-21 3:16 ` Jason Wang
2020-12-21 11:14 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-22 2:44 ` Jason Wang
2020-12-22 10:57 ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-12-22 12:29 ` Jason Wang
2020-12-22 12:56 ` Jason Wang
2020-12-22 13:23 ` Stefano Garzarella
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