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Re: [Xen-devel] Solaris and barriers

To: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Solaris and barriers
From: Gary Pennington <Gary.Pennington@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:25:14 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 03:38:23PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 24/7/07 15:32, "Gary Pennington" <Gary.Pennington@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Ok, those are the alternatives which seem viable to me right now. I've
> > considered and discarded other schemes/alternatives none of which were
> > as desirable as the ones I've listed. I'd really appreciate some feedback
> > from the community at this point.
> 
> I'm happy to incorporate [c], if you work out the right way to support it in
> Linux's blkback. Given that needing to implement [a] in any case, the
> solution [b] doesn't look all that attractive.
> 

Thanks for the rapid feedback Keir. [c] is my preferred solution. I'll start
working on an implementation and may well have more questions for this
alias about the best way to implement support in Linux's blkback.

Gary

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