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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] virtio-serial: Handle
	scatter-gather buffers for control messages
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:51:26 +0200
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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.
> 
> 		Amit

virtio-net has iov_fill. Reuse it?

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