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[RFC,1/3] virtio_ring: add capacity check API

Message ID 8014f898ca6b768d7be626b83c617a1e84adfeb9.1306921434.git.mst@redhat.com
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Michael S. Tsirkin June 1, 2011, 9:49 a.m. UTC
Add API to check ring capacity. Because of the option
to use indirect buffers, this returns the worst
case, not the normal case capacity.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c |    8 ++++++++
 include/linux/virtio.h       |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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Rusty Russell June 2, 2011, 2:11 a.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:49:46 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> Add API to check ring capacity. Because of the option
> to use indirect buffers, this returns the worst
> case, not the normal case capacity.

Can we drop the silly "add_buf() returns capacity" hack then?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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Michael S. Tsirkin June 2, 2011, 1:30 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 11:41:50AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:49:46 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add API to check ring capacity. Because of the option
> > to use indirect buffers, this returns the worst
> > case, not the normal case capacity.
> 
> Can we drop the silly "add_buf() returns capacity" hack then?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

Sure.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 68b9136..23422f1 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -344,6 +344,14 @@  void *virtqueue_get_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq, unsigned int *len)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_get_buf);
 
+int virtqueue_min_capacity(struct virtqueue *_vq)
+{
+	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
+
+	return vq->num_free;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtqueue_min_capacity);
+
 void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *_vq)
 {
 	struct vring_virtqueue *vq = to_vvq(_vq);
diff --git a/include/linux/virtio.h b/include/linux/virtio.h
index 7108857..209220d 100644
--- a/include/linux/virtio.h
+++ b/include/linux/virtio.h
@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@  struct virtqueue {
  *	vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
  *	len: the length written into the buffer
  *	Returns NULL or the "data" token handed to add_buf.
+ * virtqueue_min_capacity: get the current capacity of the queue
+ *	vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
+ *	Returns the current worst case capacity of the queue.
  * virtqueue_disable_cb: disable callbacks
  *	vq: the struct virtqueue we're talking about.
  *	Note that this is not necessarily synchronous, hence unreliable and only
@@ -89,6 +92,8 @@  void virtqueue_kick(struct virtqueue *vq);
 
 void *virtqueue_get_buf(struct virtqueue *vq, unsigned int *len);
 
+int virtqueue_min_capacity(struct virtqueue *vq);
+
 void virtqueue_disable_cb(struct virtqueue *vq);
 
 bool virtqueue_enable_cb(struct virtqueue *vq);