Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/6] xen-netback: coalesce slots before copying

[Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Wei Liu <liuw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So it is a bit tricky here. Let me clarify this, the head field is
> used to indicate the start of a new tx requests queue and the end of
> previous queue.
>
> Imagine a sequence of head fileds(I = INVALID_PENDING_RING_IDX below),
> the number is the starting index of pending ring.
>
>   .... 0 I I I 5 I I ...
>
> consume all tx_info but not setting I to 0 (or any number other then
> I) makes the sequence remains the same as before. The in subsequent
> call to process next SKB, which has 3 extra slots, which makes the

Sorry, should be "4 extra slots"

sequence looks like

  .... 8 | | | | | | ...

but in fact the correct sequence should be

  .... 8 | | | | 0 0 ...


Wei.

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