virtio: return correct capacity to users
authorMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:24:24 +0000 (14:24 +0200)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 04:51:11 +0000 (15:21 +1030)
We can't rely on indirect buffers for capacity
calculations because they need a memory allocation
which might fail.  In particular, virtio_net can get
into this situation under stress, and it drops packets
and performs badly.

So return the number of buffers we can guarantee users.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reported-By: Krishna Kumar2 <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>

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