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

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

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