Re: [virtio-comment] Re: [PATCH 0/3] Rename queue index to queue number

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 06:22:07PM +0100, Halil Pasic wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:45:31 +0100
> Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > For the vq index/number, I'm not that sure that "virtqueue number" is
> > better that "virtqueue index" -- actually, I'd prefer the latter. We'd
> > need some renaming either way.
> 
> I prefer index as well. Especially that we start indexing with 0. Also
> seems to be the more common term for such stuff in both Mathematics and
> CS.
> 
> Regards,
> Halil 


Basically I am saying that this:

/* Queue size for the currently selected queue - Write Only */
#define VIRTIO_MMIO_QUEUE_NUM           0x038

is a bad name because queue number seems to be ambiguous.

Maybe start with just getting rid of uses of QUEUE_NUM meaning size?


If we want to use queue index we need to fix RSS spec in networking
since that seems to want to use queue index in a very weird way:
networking has this idea of calling queues like this:
receiveq1 receiveq2 ....
why 1-based? I guess we wanted this to be clear even to a 5 year olds ;)

And then for extra fun, in the RSS section we say "0 based index" where we
seem to mean "this number in the queue name, but subtract 1 in your head".
Why subtract 1? I guess we wanted these 5 year olds to practice math ...


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