Re: [PATCH 1/3] virtio: find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations

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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:00:02AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 12 May 2009 07:49:32 am Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > This replaces find_vq/del_vq with find_vqs/del_vqs virtio operations,
> > and updates all drivers. This is needed for MSI support, because MSI
> > needs to know the total number of vectors upfront.
> 
> Sorry, is this not on top of my virtio_device vq linked list patch?

Not yet, working on that.

> Two other things: prefer vq_callback_t as the type name,

ok

> and perhaps consider 
> varargs for the callbacks (or would that be too horrible at the implementation 
> end?)
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

Ugh ... I think it will be. And AFAIK gcc generates a lot of code
for varargs - not something we want to do in each interrupt handler.

-- 
MST
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