Re: [PATCH] VIRTIO_F_USED_EVENT_AUTO_DISABLE: add new used buffer notification suppression mechanism

Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-05T08:00:41Z

On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 03:35:17AM +0000, Lege Wang wrote:
> hi
>
> Thanks for your comments in previous discussions.
> I'd like to confirm that do you understand this proposal's idea now. If yes,
> I may start to prepare a more formal V2.
>
> Regards,
> Xiaoguang Wang

It's not that I don't understand the proposal, it's that I don't
think it's a good proposal. It seems to rely on timeouts to solve
race conditions, which are all hidden outside of spec.
We should explain how things are supposed to work.

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