Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 6/9] virtio: Add improved queue allocation API

2016-02-02 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 3:25 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:00:56AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it >> adds two new improved APIs: >> >> vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically >>

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 6/9] virtio: Add improved queue allocation API

2016-02-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:00:56AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it > adds two new improved APIs: > > vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically > allocated coherent memory. (Some day it this could be extended

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 6/9] virtio: Add improved queue allocation API

2016-02-01 Thread Andy Lutomirski
This leaves vring_new_virtqueue alone for compatbility, but it adds two new improved APIs: vring_create_virtqueue: Creates a virtqueue backed by automatically allocated coherent memory. (Some day it this could be extended to support non-coherent memory, too, if there ends up being a platform on w