On 12/04/2011 06:00 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >  If you
> > copy descriptors, then it goes away.
>
> The avail ring could go away. used could if we make descriptors
> writeable. IIUC it was made RO in the hope that will make it
> easier for xen to adopt. Still relevant?

You mean RO from the consumer side?  Why can't Xen do that?

> > That does suck.  Are there issues in increasing the ring size?  Or
> > making it discontiguous?
>
> discontiguous ring is what indirect is, basically.

No, discontiguous is more cache and prefetch friendly.  With vmap(), the
code doesn't even change.


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