From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-4528-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [66.179.20.138]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D693C581920F for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:27:26 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180626002306-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180625122442.22432-1-tiwei.bie@intel.com> <20180625203654-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <72351a30-480e-b160-9774-c0b880230c1d@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <72351a30-480e-b160-9774-c0b880230c1d@linux.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] content: tweak VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER To: Halil Pasic Cc: Tiwei Bie , cohuck@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, dan.daly@intel.com, cunming.liang@intel.com, zhihong.wang@intel.com List-ID: On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:40:55PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote: > > > On 06/25/2018 07:42 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:07:17PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 06/25/2018 02:24 PM, Tiwei Bie wrote: > > > > VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER was proposed recently to allow > [..] > > > > + \item[VIRTIO_F_REAL_DEVICE(36)] This feature indicates > > > > + that the device doesn't allow the driver to assume the > > > > + device is implemented in software and runs on host CPU. > > > > + When devices are implemented in software and run on host > > > > + CPU, some optimizations can be done in drivers and yield > > > > > > s/optimizations/optimization/ ? > > > > Why? > > > > My spell-checker complains but after searching the internet it > 'optimizations' seems like a legit plural. However > https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/optimization > does state 'mass noun' (that is uncountable) but then there > is an example with countable :S. English is not my strong > side. > > Regards, > Halil It's like e.g. coffee. So "some optimization" means "a little". "Some optimizations" means "not all". -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org