From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758437Ab3BSJL1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:11:27 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62176 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758151Ab3BSJLY (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:11:24 -0500 Message-ID: <512341B2.6030209@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:11:14 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wanlong Gao , asias@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] virtio: new API for addition of buffers, scatterlist changes References: <1360671815-2135-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <87r4kjjuyn.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <511CAD19.2010902@redhat.com> <87ehgciw08.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87ehgciw08.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Il 19/02/2013 08:49, Rusty Russell ha scritto: > > But modulo devastating benchmarks, this wins. Because the three-part > API is really, really ugly. It *looks* like a generic "start - work > ... work - end" API, but it's not. Because you need to declare exactly > what you're doing in virtqueue_start_buf! Fair enough, and since you did the work for me I cannot really complain. :) Paolo