We want to inline qemu_iovec_init_extended() in block/io.c for padding
requests, and having access to qiov_slice() is useful for this. As a
public function, it is renamed to qemu_iovec_slice().
(We will need to count the number of I/O vector elements of a slice
there, and then later process this slice. Without qiov_slice(), we
would need to call qemu_iovec_subvec_niov(), and all further
IOV-processing functions may need to skip prefixing elements to
accomodate for a qiov_offset. Because qemu_iovec_subvec_niov()
internally calls qiov_slice(), we can just have the block/io.c code call
qiov_slice() itself, thus get the number of elements, and also create an
iovec array with the superfluous prefixing elements stripped, so the
following processing functions no longer need to skip them.)
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230411173418.19549-2-hreitz@redhat.com>
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