Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/18] virtio: add api for delayed callbacks | Date | Mon, 16 May 2011 16:43:21 +0930 |
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 15:48:18 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:27:33PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Wed, 4 May 2011 23:52:33 +0300, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Add an API that tells the other side that callbacks > > > should be delayed until a lot of work has been done. > > > Implement using the new used_event feature. > > > > Since you're going to add a capacity query anyway, why not add the > > threshold argument here? > > I thought that if we keep the API kind of generic > there might be more of a chance that future transports > will be able to implement it. For example, with an > old host we can't commit to a specific index.
No, it's always a hint anyway: you can be notified before the threshold is reached. But best make it explicit I think.
Cheers, Rusty.
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