"BillXiang" <[email protected]> writes: > On 8/31/2026 11:46 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> On 31/8/26 13:49, BillXiang wrote: >> >>> How about discussing the patch[1]: >>> "virtio: Add aligned ld/st accessors for vring". >>> >>> As pointed out in the patch, this has been a long-standing issue. It is >>> now necessary to introduce atomic accessors for fields that require >>> atomicity, such as the avail_idx field in virtio. This support is >>> especially crucial for architectures like RISC-V, which do not natively >>> support misaligned memory accesses. >>> >>> I'm particularly eager to receive more suggestions for it. >> >> This is a very technical topic, not sure if the community call will >> be a better place than the mailing list, in particular if no virtio / >> atomic expert developers appears. We'll see :) > > Sorry, I'm not yet familiar with the community call process. If this > isn't for technical topic, please feel free to disregard my message.
The technical conversation with reviewers starts on the mailing list, where it's asynchronous, public, and archived. Occasionally, this gets stuck in ways that a call can resolve best. The community call is an option then. Make sure that the right people attend. Do consider scheduling a separate call instead, to not bore the "wrong" people on the community call. [...]
