Re: [RFC PATCH] Subject: virtio: Add unused buffers detach fromvring

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 16:17:44 EST


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:14:07AM -0800, Shirley Ma wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:47 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > + detach_buf(vq, i);
> > > + END_USE(vq);
> > > + return vq->data[i];
> >
> > In fact, this will return NULL always, won't it?
>
> Nope, I changed the destroy to detach and return the buffers without
> destroying them within the call. I thought it might be useful in some
> other case.
>
> Maybe I should put destroy call back?
>
> Thanks
> Shirley

No I think it's good as is, we do not need a callback.
I was simply saying that detach_buf sets data to NULL,
so return vq->data[i] after detach does not make sense.
You need to save data as comment below says.c

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