The virtqueue_pop() implementation needs to check if the avail ring
contains some pending buffers. To perform this check, it is not
always necessary to fetch the avail_idx in the VQ memory, which is
expensive. This patch introduces a shadow variable tracking avail_idx
and modifies virtio_queue_empty() to access avail_idx in physical
memory only when necessary.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <b617d6459902773d9f4ab843bfaca764f5af8eda.1450218353.git.v.maffione@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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