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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] virtio-video: Add virtio video device specification
Hi, > > We also see the need to add a max_streams value to this structure so as to > > explicitly provide a limit on the number of streams the guest can create. > > What would be the advantage over just trying to create one and > failing? The maximum number would be only meaningful for the special > case when the streams are always only created by one user space > process. Otherwise, if several processes do that, they are not aware > of each other and the number could be higher than they can actually > create, because other processes could have some streams created > already. Also the number of streams might not be fixed but depend on stream parameters, i.e. hardware can decode one hd or two sd streams ... cheers, Gerd
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