Re: Patch to auto-load MSFT PV NIC driver

2010-05-11 Thread Ky Srinivasan
On 5/10/2010 at 1:21 PM, in message 20100510172125.ga1...@kroah.com, Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 05:05:02PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 7:27 AM - Hank Janssen On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 01:52:01PM +, Hank Janssen wrote: I am

RE: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Optimize adj_guesttime function and add more detailed comments

2010-05-11 Thread Haiyang Zhang
Just a couple of style nits. return at the end of a void function() is unnecessary. Thank you for pointing this out. I'll update the patch soon. - Haiyang ___ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org

[PATCH RFC] vhost: fix barrier pairing

2010-05-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
According to memory-barriers.txt, an smp memory barrier should always be paired with another smp memory barrier, and I quote a lack of appropriate pairing is almost certainly an error. In case of vhost, failure to flush out used index update before looking at the interrupt disable flag could

Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself

2010-05-11 Thread Ryan Harper
* Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com [2010-05-05 16:37]: Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring doesn't need to see where Guest is up to in consuming the ring. However, to completely understand what's going on from the outside, this information must be exposed. For example, host can

Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio: put last seen used index into ring itself

2010-05-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:46:08PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote: * Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com [2010-05-05 16:37]: Generally, the Host end of the virtio ring doesn't need to see where Guest is up to in consuming the ring. However, to completely understand what's going on from the