Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/29] chardev: remove qemu_chr_fe_read_all() counter

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:08:49PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> There is no obvious reason to have a loop counter. This limits from
> reading several megabytes large buffers in one go, since socket
> read/write usually have a limit.

The counter was there since this method's introduction in
7b0bfdf52d694c9a3a96505aa42ce3f8d63acd35, and no obvious
indication of its purpose in that commit.

I can imagine maybe it was a misguided attempt to prevent
QEMU blocking forever if no data was pending, but it does
not in fact achieve that.

> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
>  chardev/char-fe.c | 6 +-----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)


Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>


Regards,
Daniel
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