Re: [RFC 3/3] virtio_ring: use new vring flags

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Fri Dec 07 2018 - 13:10:58 EST


On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 04:48:42PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> Switch to using the _SPLIT_ and _PACKED_ variants of vring flags
> in split ring and packed ring respectively.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> @@ -502,7 +505,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add_split(struct virtqueue *_vq,
> }
> }
> /* Last one doesn't continue. */
> - desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev, ~VRING_DESC_F_NEXT);
> + desc[prev].flags &= cpu_to_virtio16(_vq->vdev,
> + (u16)~BIT(VRING_SPLIT_DESC_F_NEXT));
>
> if (indirect) {
> /* Now that the indirect table is filled in, map it. */

I kind of dislike it that this forces use of a cast here.
Kind of makes it more fragile. Let's use a temporary instead?

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> 2.17.1