Re: [virtio-dev] packed ring layout proposal

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Stefan Hajnoczi <>
Date
2016-09-16T09:28:24+00:00
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Re: [virtio-dev] packed ring layout proposal
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:39:15AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Let's start a discussion around an alternative ring layout.
> This has been in my kvm forum 2016 presentation.
> The idea is to have a r/w descriptor in a ring structure,
> replacing the used and available ring, index and descriptor
> buffer.

Do you have pseudo-code?  I find it difficult to infer how it's supposed
to work from the description.