On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, one benefit of trying to describe a complex system from the top
> is that higher level stupidity can sometimes become clear... I
> realised that the queue wouldn't even need to be initialised or
> cleared if StartReadBuffers() had an explicit in/out npinned argument
> to transmit the count between calls along with the buffers, or
> examined after each call. This is a draft alternative fix that I am
> studying that removes quite a lot of lines and fragility, though time
> is not on my side so I might push the one-liner fix ahead of the
> upcoming freeze and then see what to do about this.
One-liner fix pushed.
Here is a new version of the slightly more ambitious fix, for
discussion. I need to figure out if there is any measurable
performance impact, but from an interface sanity and fragility POV it
seems infinitely better like this. I recall being paranoid about
function call width, but it still fits in 6 registers. I think
perhaps the InvalidBuffer-based API might have seemed a shade more
reasonable before I reworked the pin limiting logic, but once I had to
start scanning for forwarded buffers after every StartReadBuffers()
call, I really should have reconsidered that interface. In other
words, maybe a bit of myopic path dependency here...
