Re: [virtio-dev] [RFC] content: tweak VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER

[Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>]

On 06/25/2018 07:42 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 06:07:17PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> > On 06/25/2018 02:24 PM, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> > > VIRTIO_F_IO_BARRIER was proposed recently to allow
[..]
> > > +  \item[VIRTIO_F_REAL_DEVICE(36)] This feature indicates
> > > +  that the device doesn't allow the driver to assume the
> > > +  device is implemented in software and runs on host CPU.
> > > +  When devices are implemented in software and run on host
> > > +  CPU, some optimizations can be done in drivers and yield
> >
> > s/optimizations/optimization/ ?
>
> Why?

My spell-checker complains but after searching the internet it
'optimizations' seems like a legit plural. However
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/optimization
does state 'mass noun' (that is uncountable) but then there
is an example with countable :S. English is not my strong
side.

Regards,
Halil