virtio: return correct capacity to users
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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