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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-02-04 23:49:59 -0500
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-02-04 23:50:00 +1100
commit426e3e0af5d2473e67d4256fc1340b7faebd1cc7 (patch)
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virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage
The other side (host) can set the NO_NOTIFY flag as an optimization, to say "no need to kick me when you add things". Make it clear that this is advisory only; especially that we should always notify when the ring is full. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
index 342bb0363fb..dbe1d35db32 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ static int vring_add_buf(struct virtqueue *_vq,
if (vq->num_free < out + in) {
pr_debug("Can't add buf len %i - avail = %i\n",
out + in, vq->num_free);
+ /* We notify *even if* VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY is set here. */
+ vq->notify(&vq->vq);
END_USE(vq);
return -ENOSPC;
}