Re: [PATCH net-next] virtio-net: drop rq->max and rq->num

[David Miller]

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:45:24 +0800

> It looks like there's no need for those two fields:
> 
> - Unless there's a failure for the first refill try, rq->max should be always
>   equal to the vring size.
> - rq->num is only used to determine the condition that we need to do the refill,
>   we could check vq->num_free instead.
> - rq->num was required to be increased or decreased explicitly after each
>   get/put which results a bad API.
> 
> So this patch removes them both to make the code simpler.
> 
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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