Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] VT-d: correct a comment and remove useless if() statement

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 12.04.17 at 05:56, <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 04:32:06AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 12.04.17 at 04:41, <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 02:57:23AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12.04.17 at 02:04, <chao.gao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> +         * If a caller want an atomic update from the views of VT-d
>>>>
>>>>wants
>>>>
>>>>Also what do you mean by "from the views of VT-d"?
>>> 
>>> OK. will fix this too. Do you mean it is (and should be) atomic from 
>>> software's view
>>> , so these words are redundant.
>>
>>I don't mean anything here until I understand what you mean.
>>
> 
> I think making this update presented to VT-d hardware as an atomic update 
> is this function's goal. Is that right? That's why I said "from the views fo
> VT-d".

"If the caller wants VT-d hardware to always see a consistent
entry ..." perhaps?

Jan


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