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Subject: Re: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.
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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.
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Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@gmail.com> writes:
> How do you see the in-kernel API for this? I would like to see
> something similar to my previous patches, where we extend
> the virtqueue API. E.g. something like this:

> struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueueh(unsigned int index,
> 				       unsigned int num,
> 				       unsigned int vring_align,
> 				       struct virtio_device *vdev,
> 				       bool weak_barriers,
> 				       void *pages,
> 				       void (*notify)(struct virtqueue *),
> 				       void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *),
> 				       const char *name);

I was just going to create _kernel variants of all the _user helpers,
and let you drive it directly like that.

If we get a second in-kernel user, we create wrappers (I'd prefer not to
overload struct virtqueue though).

Cheers,
Rusty.