Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2012-10-05

Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-10-05 07:47:25
Also in: kvm, lkml, netdev

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Il 04/10/2012 09:44, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
-In particular, no implementation should use the descriptor
-boundaries to determine the size of any header in a request.[footnote:
-The current qemu device implementations mistakenly insist that
-the first descriptor cover the header in these cases exactly, so
-a cautious driver should arrange it so.
+[footnote:
+It was previously asserted that framing should be independent of
+message contents, yet invariably drivers layed out messages in
+reliable ways and devices assumed it. In addition, the
+specifications for virtio_blk and virtio_scsi require intuiting
+field lengths from frame boundaries.
 ]
Not true for virtio_scsi...

Paolo
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