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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio: indirect ring entries (VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC)
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On Mon, 18 May 2009 12:35:39 am Avi Kivity wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > No, it's true for block.  It has output parts, so we should reduce
> > threshold when it's full.  Network recvq is an example which should
> > reduce threshold when it's empty.
>
> You mean the header that contains the sector number?  It's a little
> incidental, but I guess it works.

Yes, the one which breaks is randomness.  You really do just throw buffers with 
no metadata in them and the request is implied. If/when we care, we can add a 
hint flag.

Cheers,
Rusty.