[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice-qemu-char: Fix flow control in client -> guest direction

[Hans de Goede]

In the old spice-vmc device we used to have:
last_out = virtio_serial_write(&svc->port, p, MIN(len, VMC_MAX_HOST_WRITE));
if (last_out > 0)
   ...

Now in the chardev backend we have:
last_out = MIN(len, VMC_MAX_HOST_WRITE);
qemu_chr_read(scd->chr, p, last_out);
if (last_out > 0) {
   ...

Which causes us to no longer detect if the virtio port is not ready
to receive data from us. chardev actually has a mechanism to detect this,
but it requires a separate call to qemu_chr_can_read, before calling
qemu_chr_read (which return void).

This patch uses qemu_chr_can_read to fix the flow control from client to
guest.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <address@hidden>
---
 spice-qemu-char.c |   11 +++++------
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/spice-qemu-char.c b/spice-qemu-char.c
index fa15a71..605c241 100644
--- a/spice-qemu-char.c
+++ b/spice-qemu-char.c
@@ -36,14 +36,13 @@ static int vmc_write(SpiceCharDeviceInstance *sin, const 
uint8_t *buf, int len)
 
     while (len > 0) {
         last_out = MIN(len, VMC_MAX_HOST_WRITE);
-        qemu_chr_read(scd->chr, p, last_out);
-        if (last_out > 0) {
-            out += last_out;
-            len -= last_out;
-            p += last_out;
-        } else {
+        if (qemu_chr_can_read(scd->chr) < last_out) {
             break;
         }
+        qemu_chr_read(scd->chr, p, last_out);
+        out += last_out;
+        len -= last_out;
+        p += last_out;
     }
 
     dprintf(scd, 3, "%s: %lu/%zd\n", __func__, out, len + out);
-- 
1.7.3.2