Re: [PATCH net] Revert "vhost: cache used event for better performance"

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Wed Jul 26 2017 - 06:53:51 EST


On 07/26/2017 10:03 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> This reverts commit 809ecb9bca6a9424ccd392d67e368160f8b76c92. Since it
> was reported to break vhost_net. We want to cache used event and use
> it to check for notification. We try to valid cached used event by
> checking whether or not it was ahead of new, but this is not correct
> all the time, it could be stale and there's no way to know about this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>

This would then qualify for stable ?