Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: verify that all outstanding buffers are flushed (was Re: vmstate conversion for virtio?)

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

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:33:06PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> > Add sanity check to address the following concern:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:47:22AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> All we need is the index of the request; the rest can be re-read from
> >> the ring.
> 
> The terminology I used here was loose, indeed.
> 
> We need the head of the chained descriptor, which we already read from
> the ring when we gathered the request.

So ack that patch?

> Currently we dump a massive structure; it's inelegant at the very least.
> 
> Cheers,
> Rusty.

Hmm not sure what you refer to. I see this per ring:

        qemu_put_be32(f, vdev->vq[i].vring.num);
        qemu_put_be64(f, vdev->vq[i].pa);
        qemu_put_be16s(f, &vdev->vq[i].last_avail_idx);

Looks like there's no way around savng these fields.

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MST