On Wednesday 11 November 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 01:45:35PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > > If you don't need real barriers, then why does the kvm code have them? > > We need real barriers but AFAIK kvm does not have them :( > IOW: virtio is currently broken with kvm, and my patch did > not fix this. The comment that I added says as much.
So your code just makes the bug harder to reproduce? Doesn't sound like a good thing to me. Paul