Re: [virtio-dev] packed ring layout proposal

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

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 11:49:17AM +0200, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/16/2016 08:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:28:19AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Find a prototype implementation under tools/virtio/ringbench/ring.c in
> > latest Linux.
> 
> Are you sure of the path?

Sorry - tools/virtio/ringtest/ring.c

> I also had a look at your kernel.org repository, but no luck there
> either.
> 
> Yuanhan is willing to prototype it in DPDK, so I think he will be
> interested in your implementation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Maxime