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Tsirkin" To: Jason Wang Cc: Akihiko Odaki , Jonathan Corbet , Willem de Bruijn , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Xuan Zhuo , Shuah Khan , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Yuri Benditovich , Andrew Melnychenko , Stephen Hemminger , gur.stavi@huawei.com, devel@daynix.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] tun: Set num_buffers for virtio 1.0 Message-ID: <20250110052246-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20250109-tun-v2-0-388d7d5a287a@daynix.com> <20250109-tun-v2-3-388d7d5a287a@daynix.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 11:27:13AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM Akihiko Odaki wrote: > > > > The specification says the device MUST set num_buffers to 1 if > > VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF has not been negotiated. > > Have we agreed on how to fix the spec or not? > > As I replied in the spec patch, if we just remove this "MUST", it > looks like we are all fine? > > Thanks We should replace MUST with SHOULD but it is not all fine, ignoring SHOULD is a quality of implementation issue.