From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_ring: make structure defines packed
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:55:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802111355.22449.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10802092232w327a96f9ueca5370df826a674@mail.gmail.com>
Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2008 schrieb ron minnich:
> The problem for me is that gcc packed is not compatible with the plan
> 9 C compiler. So, for a truly heterogeneous setup, you are going to
> have
> to have code to marshall the structures when transferring between
> domains, and you are better off not trying to fake it with packed --
> it can actually make the
> marshalling less efficient.
Ok, I am conviced. The packed idea came up for mixed platform setups, but
you are right - this reuqires much more.
Christian
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 13:01 [PATCH] virtio_ring: make structure defines packed Christian Borntraeger
2008-02-09 8:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-09 8:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-10 0:51 ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 2:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-10 2:18 ` [kvm-devel] " Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10 6:32 ` ron minnich
2008-02-11 12:55 ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2008-02-11 12:55 ` [kvm-devel] " Christian Borntraeger
2008-02-10 6:32 ` ron minnich
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2008-02-08 13:01 Christian Borntraeger
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