On Sunday 09 December 2007 09:02:48 Anthony Liguori wrote: > If QEMU ever got true SMP support, then virtio would not work as it > requires 16-bit atomic writes which AFAIK is not possible on a number of > non-x86 architectures.
Hmm? Where is this requirement coming from? I think everyone should stop using the word "atomic" in virtio discussions; it's confusing. Rusty.