On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 02:27:18PM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Prerna <saxenap....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > 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? > > > > That's not going to make it in 2.7 I am afraid.
It's a bugfix so - depends on how quickly can comments be addressed. -- MST