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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-net: Read MAC only after initializing MSI-X
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:01:50 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110919060150.GB1569@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871uvdryq2.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:05:17PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:00:44 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 07:33:07PM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > Maybe this is better solved by copying the way it was done in PCI itself
> > > with capability linked list?
> > 
> > There are any number of ways to lay out the structure.  I went for what
> > seemed a simplest one.  For MSI-X the train has left the station.  We
> > can probably still tweak where the high 32 bit features
> > for 64 bit features are.  No idea if it's worth it.
> 
> Sorry, this has been in the back of my mind.  I think it's a good idea;
> can we use the capability linked list for pre-device specific stuff from
> now on?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rusty.

Do we even want capability bits then?
We can give each capability an ack flag ...

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-13  8:51 [PATCH] virtio-net: Read MAC only after initializing MSI-X Sasha Levin
2011-08-14  2:53 ` Rusty Russell
2011-08-14 13:57   ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-15  0:25     ` Rusty Russell
2011-08-15 22:17       ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-19 15:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-19 16:33   ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-20 20:00     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-19  3:35       ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-19  6:01         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2011-09-19  7:49           ` Rusty Russell
2011-09-28 18:30             ` Sasha Levin
2011-10-02  9:11               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-02  9:09             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-03 23:51               ` Rusty Russell
2011-08-22  0:24   ` Rusty Russell
2011-08-22  8:36     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-23  3:49       ` Rusty Russell
2011-08-31 16:24       ` Sasha Levin

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