| From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before messages | Date | Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:06:39 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:05 PM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: gregkh@suse.de; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; virtualization@lists.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang > Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events before > messages > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:31:36AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > Conform to Windows specification by checking for events before messages. > > What specification? > > Care to provide a comment in the code that you are doing this in this > explicit order because of some rule that the hypervisor imposes on us?
I am not sure if this is documented anywhere (publicly). In talking to Windows guys, they suggested this is the order in which it is done on Windows guests and suggested I should do the same. I will see if there is some public documentation that specifies this.
Regards,
K. Y > > thanks, > > greg k-h
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