Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] virtio-serial: Handle scatter-gather buffers for control messages

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 09:45:08PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) Mar 23 2010 [17:51:26], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:48:02AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > > On (Sat) Mar 20 2010 [09:40:50], Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > > On 03/19/2010 01:58 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> > > >> +
> > > >> +        offset = 0;
> > > >> +        for (i = 0; i<  elem.out_num; i++) {
> > > >> +            memcpy(buf + offset, elem.out_sg[i].iov_base,
> > > >> +                   elem.out_sg[i].iov_len);
> > > >> +            offset += elem.out_sg[i].iov_len;
> > > >> +        }
> > > >> +        len = cur_len;
> > > >> +
> > > >> +        handle_control_message(vser, buf, len);
> > > >> +        virtqueue_push(vq,&elem, len);
> > > >> +    }
> > > >> +    if (len) {
> > > >> +        qemu_free(buf);
> > > >>       }
> > > >>       virtio_notify(vdev, vq);
> > > >>   }
> > > >
> > > > Isn't there some virtio function to linearize requests?
> > > 
> > > I don't see one.
> > 
> > virtio-net has iov_fill. Reuse it?
> 
> Hm, yeah. Any ideas on how to share it? Put it in some common file?
> 
> Just copying it seems good for now..
> 
> 		Amit


Add iov.c

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