Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio-spec: clarify ro/rw bits and updating rule of virtio-net status field | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:35:18 +1030 |
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:20:21 +0800, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote: > This patch clarifies VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP as a read-only bit and > VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE as a read-writable bit. Also introduce the write 1 to > clear semantics for all read-writable bits of config status field. This could > help to reduce the config status field updating race between host and guest and > also simplify the implementation. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
This approach assumes an active config field, which neither lguest nor S/390 have.
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