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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-net: remove useless disable on freeze
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 14:08:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120503110845.GA25569@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120503105959.GM13421@amit.redhat.com>

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 04:29:59PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) 04 Apr 2012 [12:19:55], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > disable_cb is just an optimization: it
> > can not guarantee that there are no callbacks.
> 
> Even then, what's the harm in keeping it?  If indeed there's an
> attempt to raise an interrupt after the host has been notified, it
> will be suppressed.

It won't. It's not a guarantee, e.g. with event index on
it does nothing at all.

> Also, disable_cb seems to be used elsewhere in the virtio_net.c file,
> to suit similar purposes.
> 
> 		Amit

Where?

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04  9:19 [PATCH RFC] virtio-net: remove useless disable on freeze Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-03 10:59 ` Amit Shah
2012-05-03 11:08   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-05-28 12:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-30 10:11   ` Rusty Russell
2012-05-31  8:35     ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-05-31  8:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-05-31  9:04         ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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