From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89156B0044 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:01:24 -0500 (EST) From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:31:20 +1030 References: <20091104115729.GD8398@redhat.com> <20091104172542.GC6736@linux.vnet.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20091104172542.GC6736@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911061531.20299.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Gregory Haskins , Eric Dumazet , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, s.hetze@linux-ag.com List-ID: On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:55:42 am Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Can you ack this usage please? > > I thought I had done so in my paragraph above, but if you would like > something a bit more formal... That's great guys. And yes, this is a kind of read-copy-update. And no, there's nothing wrong with it. But it's still nasty to use half an API. If it were a few places I would have open-coded it with a comment, or wrapped it. As it is, I don't think that would be a win. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org