Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC] virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself

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On 05/05/2010 11:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
+	/* We publish the last-seen used index at the end of the available ring.
+	 * It is at the end for backwards compatibility. */
+	vr->last_used_idx =&(vr)->avail->ring[num];
+	/* Verify that last used index does not spill over the used ring. */
+	BUG_ON((void *)vr->last_used_idx +
+	       sizeof *vr->last_used_idx>  (void *)vr->used);
  }

Shouldn't this be on its own cache line?

One way to achieve this is to allocate it at the end.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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