From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] virtio/vhost: fix alignment requirements
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:52:16 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvc1bg6v.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141225150548.GA12865@redhat.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 05:05:01PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> vhost incorrectly asked for 8 byte alignment for
>> used ring pointer, it should be 4 byte.
>>
>> Let's add explicit macros for ring element alignment,
>> this makes it easier to make sure our requirements
>> match the spec.
>>
>> Rusty, OK to merge this through my vhost tree, or do you
>> prefer merging this through yours?
>
> Just to clarify, this is needed in 3.19.
Sure, please take this via the vhost tree.
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Thanks,
Rusty.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-27 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-25 15:05 [PATCH v2 0/2] virtio/vhost: fix alignment requirements Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-25 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] virtio_ring: document " Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-25 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] vhost: relax used address alignment Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-25 15:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] virtio/vhost: fix alignment requirements Michael S. Tsirkin
2014-12-27 9:22 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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