[Lguest] [PATCH 14/18] virtio: add api for delayed callbacks
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at redhat.com
Sun May 15 22:48:18 EST 2011
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:27:33PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 4 May 2011 23:52:33 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks
> > should be delayed until a lot of work has been done.
> > Implement using the new used_event feature.
>
> Since you're going to add a capacity query anyway, why not add the
> threshold argument here?
I thought that if we keep the API kind of generic
there might be more of a chance that future transports
will be able to implement it. For example, with an
old host we can't commit to a specific index.
>
> Then the caller can choose how much space it needs. Maybe net and block
> will want different things...
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty.
Hmm, maybe. OK.
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MST
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