Re: [virtio-dev] RFC: Doorbell suppression, packed-ring mode and hardware offload

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Michael S. Tsirkin <>
Date
2019-05-03T18:09:46+00:00
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Re: [virtio-dev] RFC: Doorbell suppression, packed-ring mode and hardware offload
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 08:52:01AM +0000, David Riddoch wrote:
> > > Presumably we would like this to be an optional feature, as implementations
> > > of packed mode already exist in the wild.  How about
> > > VIRTIO_F_RING_PACKED_AVAIL_IDX?
> > > If I prepare a patch to the spec is there still time to get this into v1.1?
> > Any new feature would require another round of public review.
> > I personally think it's better to instead try to do 1.2 soon after,
> > e.g. we could try to target quarterly releases.
> > 
> > But ultimately that would be up to the TC vote.

Hi David!
Now that 1.1 is out, how about proposing this for 1.2?
It's probably a very good time for such a proposal.
Do you have the time to spec it out?

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