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>
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Rusty Russell
2008-02-04 23:49:59 -05:00
parent 3309daaad7
commit 426e3e0af5
3 changed files with 13 additions and 6 deletions

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@@ -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;
}