On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Prerna Saxena <saxenap....@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Prerna Saxena <prerna.sax...@nutanix.com> > > The current vhost-user protocol requires the client to send responses to > only a > few commands. For the remaining commands, it is impossible for QEMU to > know the > status of the requested operation -- ie, did it succeed? If so, by what > time? > > This is inconvenient, and can also lead to races. As an example: > [..snip..] > > References: > v1 : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg07152.html > v2 : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-07/msg00048.html > > > Prerna Saxena (2): > vhost-user: Introduce a new protocol feature REPLY_ACK. > vhost-user: Attempt to fix a race with set_mem_table. > > docs/specs/vhost-user.txt | 44 +++++++++++++++ > hw/virtio/vhost-user.c | 133 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > 2 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-) > > Ping ! Michael, MarcAndre, Did you have a chance to look at this patch series? Regards, Prerna
