Re: [PATCH 1/1] hv: Use only one receive buffer and kmalloc oninitialize

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 08:06:20PM +0000, Hank Janssen wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:41 AM
> > > The current versions of Hyper-V support interrupt handling on CPU0 only.
> > > I can make multiple buffers per channel, but because of Hyper-V
> > > implementation It does not really make a difference.
> > 
> > Then put a big fat note in there saying this, and that it will have to change if
> > the hyperv channel ever changes.
> > 
> > Hm, how will you handle things if the hyperv core changes and an old kernel
> > is running this code where things were "assumed" about the reentrancy
> > happening here?
> 
> I will re-roll this patch to have a buffer per channel. It is a more elegant design
> Even though Hyper-V behavior is not changing in Win8 for this.

Win8, fine, but what about Win9?  :)

thanks for changing it.

greg k-h
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