From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] Defer skb allocation -- add destroy buffers function for virtio
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:06:12 +1030
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:52:53 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 12:08:05PM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > I agree with the comments (will have two patches instead of 4 based on
> > Rusty's comments) except below one.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 12:26 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > That said - do we have to use a callback?
> > > I think destroy_buf which returns data pointer,
> > > and which we call repeatedly until we get NULL
> > > or error, would be an a better, more flexible API.
> > > This is not critical though.
> > 
> > The reason to use this is because in virtio_net remove, it has
> > BUG_ON(vi->num != 0), which will be consistent with small skb packet. If
> > we use NULL, error then we lose the track for vi->num, since we don't
> > know how many buffers have been passed to ULPs or still unused.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Shirley
> 
> I dont insist, but my idea was
> 
> for (;;) {
> 	b = vq->destroy(vq);
> 	if (!b)
> 		break;
> 	--vi->num;
> 	put_page(b);
> }

In this case it should be called "get_unused_buf" or something.  But I like
Shirley's approach here; destroy (with callback) accurately reflects the only
time this can be validly used.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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