Re: virtq questions

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* Miklos Szeredi (miklos@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Looking at the ugly retry logic in virtiofs and have some questions.
> First one is, where do these features come from:
> 
> VIRTIO_F_RING_PACKED
> VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC
> 
> I see that in virtiofs "packed" is off and "indirect" is on.  Is this
> guaranteed?

I think the xdindirect is coming from qemu's hw/virtio/virtio.h DEFINE_VIRTIO_COMMON_FEATURES
which has:
    DEFINE_PROP_BIT64("indirect_desc", _state, _field,    \
                      VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC, true), \

Dave

> Thanks,
> Miklos
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK
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