From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] virtio network device
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712121224.38403.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475B1488.5040200@codemonkey.ws>
On Sunday 09 December 2007 09:02:48 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If QEMU ever got true SMP support, then virtio would not work as it
> requires 16-bit atomic writes which AFAIK is not possible on a number of
> non-x86 architectures.
Hmm? Where is this requirement coming from?
I think everyone should stop using the word "atomic" in virtio discussions;
it's confusing.
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-12 1:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 21:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] virtio network device Anthony Liguori
2007-12-04 22:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-04 23:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Dor Laor
2007-12-05 17:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-05 17:44 ` Paul Brook
2007-12-05 20:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-06 9:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2007-12-08 13:22 ` Paul Brook
2007-12-08 14:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2007-12-08 16:45 ` Paul Brook
2007-12-08 19:52 ` Blue Swirl
2007-12-08 21:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2007-12-08 22:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-12 1:24 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-12-12 1:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-12-18 2:31 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-08 21:59 ` Anthony Liguori
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