From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:31 +0200 Message-ID: <200908201710.31723.arnd@arndb.de> References: <200908201631.37285.arnd@arndb.de> <20090820144256.GB8338@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, gregory.haskins@gmail.com, Or Gerlitz To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090820144256.GB8338@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thursday 20 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > The errors from the socket (or chardev, as that was the > > start of the argument) should still fit into the categories > > that I mentioned, either they can be handled by the host > > kernel, or they are fatal. > > Hmm, are you sure? Imagine a device going away while socket is bound to > it. You get -ENXIO. It's not fatal in a sense that you can bind the > socket to another device and go on, right? Right. Not fatal in that sense, but fatal in the sense that I can no longer transmit other frames until you recover. I think we both meant the same here. Arnd <>< -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org