Re: [PATCH net-next RFC 2/5] vhost: introduce helper to prefetch desc index

Stefan Hajnoczi
2017-09-22T09:02:57Z

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 04:02:32PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> index f87ec75..8424166d 100644
> --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
> @@ -2437,6 +2437,61 @@ struct vhost_msg_node *vhost_dequeue_msg(struct vhost_dev *dev,
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vhost_dequeue_msg);
>
> +int vhost_prefetch_desc_indices(struct vhost_virtqueue *vq,
> + struct vring_used_elem *heads,
> + u16 num, bool used_update)

Missing doc comment.

> +{
> + int ret, ret2;
> + u16 last_avail_idx, last_used_idx, total, copied;
> + __virtio16 avail_idx;
> + struct vring_used_elem __user *used;
> + int i;

The following variable names are a little confusing:

last_avail_idx vs vq->last_avail_idx. last_avail_idx is a wrapped
avail->ring[] index, vq->last_avail_idx is a free-running counter. The
same for last_used_idx vs vq->last_used_idx.

num argument vs vq->num. The argument could be called nheads instead to
make it clear that this is heads[] and not the virtqueue size.

Not a bug but it took me a while to figure out what was going on.