On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 02:49:42PM +0100, Jens Freimann wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:47:58AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> [...]
> > +\subsection{Supplying Buffers to The Device}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of
> > a Virtio Device / Packed Virtqueues / Supplying Buffers to The Device}
> > +
> > +The driver offers buffers to one of the device's virtqueues as follows:
> > +
> > +\begin{enumerate}
> > +\item The driver places the buffer into free descriptor in the Descriptor
> > Ring.
> > +
> > +\item The driver performs a suitable memory barrier to ensure that it
> > updates
> > + the descriptor(s) before checking for notification suppression.
> > +
> > +\item If notifications are not suppressed, the driver notifies the device
> > + of the new available buffers.
> > +\end{enumerate}
> > +
> > +What follows is the requirements of each stage in more detail.
> > +
> > +\subsubsection{Placing Available Buffers Into The Descriptor
> > Ring}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Device / Virtqueues /
> > Supplying Buffers to The Device / Placing Available Buffers Into The
> > Descriptor Ring}
> > +
> > +For each buffer element, b:
> > +
> > +\begin{enumerate}
> > +\item Get the next descriptor table entry, d
> > +\item Get the next free buffer id value
> > +\item Set \field{d.addr} to the physical address of the start of b
> > +\item Set \field{d.len} to the length of b.
> > +\item Set \field{d.id} to the buffer id
> > +\item Calculate the flags as follows:
> > +\begin{enumerate}
> > +\item If b is device-writable, set the VIRTQ_DESC_F_WRITE bit to 1,
> > otherwise 0
> > +\item Set VIRTQ_DESC_F_AVAIL bit to the current value of the Available
> > Ring Wrap Counter
> > +\item Set VIRTQ_DESC_F_AVAIL bit to inverse value
>
> This should be "Set VIRTQ_DESC_F_USED bit to inverse value, no?
>
> regards,
> Jens
Right.
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