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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: 6+ 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
2008-02-10  0:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-02-10  2:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-02-10  6:32 ` ron minnich
2008-02-11 12:55   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]

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