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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-11-12 03:39:18 +0100
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2007-11-12 03:59:40 +0100
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parentlguest: Fix lguest virtio-blk backend size computation (diff)
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virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be aligned to an N-byte boundary. But as Anthony Liguori points out, the free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest). So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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