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    SubjectRe: [RFCv2 00/12] Introduce host-side virtio queue and CAIF Virtio.
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    Sjur Brændeland <sjurbren@gmail.com> writes:
    > How do you see the in-kernel API for this? I would like to see
    > something similar to my previous patches, where we extend
    > the virtqueue API. E.g. something like this:

    > struct virtqueue *vring_new_virtqueueh(unsigned int index,
    > unsigned int num,
    > unsigned int vring_align,
    > struct virtio_device *vdev,
    > bool weak_barriers,
    > void *pages,
    > void (*notify)(struct virtqueue *),
    > void (*callback)(struct virtqueue *),
    > const char *name);

    I was just going to create _kernel variants of all the _user helpers,
    and let you drive it directly like that.

    If we get a second in-kernel user, we create wrappers (I'd prefer not to
    overload struct virtqueue though).

    Cheers,
    Rusty.
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