Re: [PATCHv7 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server

Rusty Russell
2009-11-06T05:01:18Z

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:55:42 am Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Can you ack this usage please?
>
> I thought I had done so in my paragraph above, but if you would like
> something a bit more formal...

<snip verbose super-ack with qualifications>

That's great guys. And yes, this is a kind of read-copy-update. And no,
there's nothing wrong with it.

But it's still nasty to use half an API. If it were a few places I would
have open-coded it with a comment, or wrapped it. As it is, I don't think
that would be a win.

Cheers,
Rusty.