On Mon, 2021-05-17 at 17:08 +0800, Xie Yongji wrote:
> If device driver doesn't need used length, it can pass a NULL
> len in virtqueue_get_buf()/virtqueue_get_buf_ctx().
> 

Well, actually, it can't right now?

You should probably rephrase this, saying something like

   Allow passing NULL to len in ... if the device driver doesn't need
   the length, and don't read it in that case.

or so?

>  Then
> we can avoid reading and validating the len value in used
> ring entries.

Not sure what that "validating" is about, I only see reading?

johannes

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