RE: [PATCH 37/46] Staging: hv: vmbus: Check for events beforemessages

[KY Srinivasan]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 2:05 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 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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