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

[Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:06:52 +0100
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> > 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 ...  
> 
> Heh :)
> 
> Yeah, that looks like a mess... I don't think we should use a weird
> substraction scheme. I haven't looked at the RSS stuff much, would it be
> hard to fix it up?

I just did. I wrote a somewhat lengthy email on that. The TL;DR is:
we should probably rename the receive and transmit queues (receiveq1
should become receiveq0 and receiveqN should becaome receiveqN-1 for N >
0).

Regards,
Halil