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From: David Edmondson <david.edmondson@oracle.com>
To: Alvaro Karsz <alvaro.karsz@solid-run.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
	mst@redhat.com, hengqi@linux.alibaba.com, parav@nvidia.com,
	virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH v3] virtio-net: Fix and update VIRTIO_NET_F_NOTF_COAL feature
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:56:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wn4ix3vn.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJs=3_B9GNpgzj-75mhTm1CtVwa5JfhLzqzRjxD+bsinHOLVZA@mail.gmail.com>


On Wednesday, 2023-02-15 at 18:45:14 +02, Alvaro Karsz wrote:
>> > +\begin{note}
>> > +In general, these commands are best-effort: spurious notifications could still arrive.
>> > +\end{note}
>>
>> This is quite vague. How about:
>>
>> The behaviour of the device in response to these commands is
>> best-effort: the device may generate notifications more frequently than
>> specified, for example after less than \field{max_packets} packets have
>> been processed or less than \field{usecs} usecs time has elapsed.
>>
>
> On second thought, this may be a little confusing.
> The device can send a notification before processing max_packets
> packets, if usecs elapsed (and vice versa).
> So it should be "less than \field{max_packets} packets have been
> processed AND less than \field{usecs} usecs ..."
>
> How about dropping the example?

Given Parav's comment as well, drop the example, yes.
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      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-15 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-15  9:54 [virtio-comment] [PATCH v3] virtio-net: Fix and update VIRTIO_NET_F_NOTF_COAL feature Alvaro Karsz
2023-02-15 11:42 ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-02-15 13:41   ` [virtio-comment] " Alvaro Karsz
2023-02-15 13:43 ` [virtio-comment] " David Edmondson
2023-02-15 16:19   ` [virtio-dev] " Alvaro Karsz
2023-02-15 16:43     ` Parav Pandit
2023-02-15 16:45   ` [virtio-dev] " Alvaro Karsz
2023-02-15 16:56     ` David Edmondson [this message]

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